No sane company would ever think of deploying a backdoor in its hardware products, so that's why Arris, a cable modem manufacturer, decided to add two, just to be sure one of them was working.

Note: Originally this article’s headline and text referred to 135 million Arris modems being at risk from this vulnerable. Arris has since been in touch to tell us that it would be more accurate to ...

Security researchers have found five gaping holes in the firmware running on Arris modems, three of which are hardcoded backdoor accounts. An attacker could use any of these three accounts to access ...

A backdoor is found in ARRIS cable modem, and the presence of a backdoor in the backdoor is also important for embedded devices and web application related blogsW00tsecIt was discovered by the ...

A Brazilian security researcher preparing to discuss cable modem security at an upcoming conference has discovered a second backdoor inside a number of Arris cable modems. As Bernardo Rodrigues ...