A caveat: You have to leave the external drive on all the time, and its fan can get noisy. Before you start, determine which operating system your box uses-SARA or Passport-by putting the box into diagnostic mode.
Scroll down to find the OS. Only SARA boxes can take a new internal drive, but either will work with an external drive. We've reached out to Broadcom for comment, and a company spokesperson gave us this statement: "We have made the relevant fix to the reference code and this fix was made available to customers in May The resulting attack requires local network access and is hard to pull off, but skilled attackers could embed attack code in web pages or email messages, which would then exploit the flaw once the victim viewed them in a web browser.
Successful attackers could seize control of the modem and send users of the compromised network to malicious websites, conduct man-in-the-middle attacks on online transactions, or change the modem's firmware, said researchers at Lyrebirds, the Danish security firm that found Cable Haunt and put up a website detailing the flaw.
Unfortunately, there isn't much you can do about the Cable Haunt flaw yet. Four internet service providers in Scandinavia have remotely patched their customers' cable modems, but ISPs in the rest of the world don't seem to have caught on yet.
It's not clear why Lyrebirds implied that those ISPs had patched their customers' modems only after receiving notice from the researchers, if Broadcom provided a patch several months ago. Right now, you can screen out some malicious websites and email messages by using some of the best antivirus software. This goes for Macs as well as PCs, since the attack code doesn't care which desktop platform you use. Using Mozilla Firefox exclusively for the time being might also help. The Lyrebirds team thinks nearly million cable modems may be vulnerable to Cable Haunt in Europe alone.
And I wanted the cords gone asap, they had already been driving me crazy since we moved in to our new place. We have painted brick on our fireplace and the command hooks have had no problem gripping.
After I stuck the box up, I let the command hook cure overnight and then stuck our cable box in it the next day. Turns out the signal just needs something to bounce off of in order for the pvr or cable box to receive it.
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