In the past week, the WannaCrypt ransomware attacks have shut down hospitals, businesses (including FedEx, French automaker Renault and Spanish telecommunications firm Telefonica), universities, and other organizations, by attacking over 45,000 computers in 150 countries. Our users have asked us if their routers are vulnerable to these ransomware attacks. The short is no, because these […]
By now, we’ve all heard about the huge trove of materials that WikiLeaks is releasing to the world that allegedly documents the hacking efforts of the CIA. Code named Vault 7, these documents outline how the agency performs covert surveillance on everything from iOS and Android smartphones to desktop computers. There’s even information about listening […]
You asked, we listened. One of the great benefits of developing a tool like RouterCheck is getting feedback from our many users. We appreciate any feedback we get, but the majority falls into one of two groups: Thanks for such a great tool. I wasn’t aware of any vulnerabilities in my home network, but RouterCheck […]
The FTC (U.S. Federal Trade Commission) is getting really fed up with the router manufacturers, and now it’s taking D-Link to court. Back in February 2016, the FTC punished ASUS for selling consumer routers that had major security flaws. Now, the FTC is suing D-Link for failing to take reasonable steps to secure its routers and Internet Protocol […]
The recent vulnerability that’s been found in several Netgear routers is receiving a lot of attention due to its severity. Many leading computer security experts say that the problem is so bad that if you have one, you should turn the device off and remove it from your network. But how do you tell whether your router […]
The situation with British ISP TalkTalk has become even worse as a variant of the Mirai worm has allowed hackers to create a large botnet from its subscribers’ routers and the ISP’s response has been insufficient. A research team at Imperva Incapsula has found that the a variant of the Mirai worm, which it calls […]
The researcher who discovered that the customer routers of British ISP TalkTalk were under attack has found that the problems didn’t end there. Pen Test Partners’ Ken Munro says that not only were tens of thousands of routers attacked with the Mirai worm, but they were also made to disclose their SSID (commonly known as the Network […]
The BBC is reporting that 100,00 customers of the British ISPs Talk Talk and Post Office have been knocked offline by an attack on their routers by a modified form of the Mirai worm. This is the same problem that recently affected the German ISP Deutsche Telekom which cause over 900,000 of its customers to lose […]
In light of the recent events involving the compromised routers in the Deutsche Telekom network, RouterCheck will now check for some of the indications that a router may be vulnerable to similar attacks. Earlier this week, close to 1,000,000 Deutsche Telekom customers were knocked off the internet when hackers began to attack their routers. Starting today, […]
November 2016 will go down in history as a month where the unexpected actually happened. First, the Chicago Cubs, after a 108-year drought, won the World Series. Next, Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election. Now, as this tumultuous month draws to a close, a massive attack against nearly one million home routers of Deutsche Telekom AG customers […]