Which router is the best selling router in all of Amazon.com? Linksys? D-Link? TP-LINK? Netgear? ASUS? Buffalo? ZyXEL? Certainly it has to be one of those. How about Mediabridge? Who? Yup, Mediabridge has the number one selling router in all of Amazon. Well … had. They’re not allowed to sell there anymore. Mediabridge is a […]
Remember the backdoor that was discovered in Linksys and Netgear routers a short time ago? Remember when they fixed it? Not so fast. It turns out that they didn’t fix it, they “fixed” it. Eloi Vanderbeken of Synacktiv Digital Security, the guy who found the original backdoor, has discovered that the “fix” simply hid the original […]
Everyone knows that enabling Remote Administration on your router so that the administrator’s interface is open to anyone on the internet is a bad, bad idea. Right? Right??? Okay, it is, but why? If I have a super-secure administrator password guarding the interface, why is doing this so fundamentally dangerous? Well, the people over at […]
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the Heartbleed bug which affects systems that depend on the OpenSSL library. This bug could possibly allow unauthorized people to gain access to data that they shouldn’t in a supposedly secure and encrypted connection. Because of this bug, many websites that depended on OpenSSL to manage their […]
There’s a very good article in MIT Technology Review about the recent Heartbleed bug that’s affecting many computer servers and Internet of Things devices. It makes the important case that any modern device that we use is both hardware AND software, and that software often has problems. Because of the nature of these devices (e.g. […]
A new report from Nominum claims that more than 24 million home routers on the Internet have open DNS proxies which expose ISPs to DNS-based Denial of Service attacks. It goes on to say that in February 2014, 5.3M of these routers were in fact used to attack, and that in January 2014, more than 70% […]
Sometimes we need to take a break from computers and hackers and security and just have a little fun. Maybe even sing a song. A song about routers. What?? Yes, a song about routers.
Bravo to Kim Komando and USA Today for publishing a great article on the dangers of home routers. No huge insights or surprises, but it’s good to see that the message is being taken to a wide audience of people who might otherwise would not be aware of the issues.
Reports from British ISP Plusnet say that many of their subscribers have been hit by an attack that modifies the DNS setting on their routers and directs them to phishing websites. A spokesman for the ISP said It appears that some of our customers, (and no doubt a number of other people out on the […]
Reports from Germany say that Fritz!Box, the popular DSL/Wireless LAN Router, contains a vulnerability that allows a hacker to make expensive and unauthorized phone calls from the device. AVM, the developer of the Fritz!Box has issued a security warning to all of its users warning them of the danger. The vulnerability affects any users who’ve […]