Millions of people accessing the internet through broadband cable connections risk having their computers taken over by malicious hackers, vnunet.com can exclusively reveal. Israeli Security Company Checkpoint revealed today that the devastating security vulnerability is caused by the shared architecture of . . .
Millions of people accessing the internet through broadband cable connections risk having their computers taken over by malicious hackers, vnunet.com can exclusively reveal. Israeli Security Company Checkpoint revealed today that the devastating security vulnerability is caused by the shared architecture of the data channel that carries internet traffic within cable companies' fibre networks.

This means groups of subscribers share a single cable connecting them to the local neighbourhood node. Each subscriber's signal is multiplexed on to this single cable by frequency division multiplexing (FDM).

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