Today, February 9, is Safer Internet Day. Part of keeping your router secure is good password management. Check out our guest blog post on the Sticky Password blog about how securing your router keeps the entire internet safer.
Category: Password
Getting Over the Password Hurdle
Most hacked routers are attacked because of bad passwords. To celebrate Safer Internet Day on February 9, we bring you this guest blog post from Sticky Password about managing your passwords. Are passwords a hurdle to you when you’re online? Does your pulse go up at the very thought of having to create and remember another password, or […]
WiFi Security @ World Cup Security
200,000 TP-LINK Routers are Vulnerable in Algeria
ABDELLI Nassereddine, an Algerian Computer Science Student has reported a highly critical unauthorized access and password disclosure vulnerability in the routers provided by Algerie Telecom. Algerie Telecom provides TP-LINK TD-W8951ND routers to most of their customers which contain this vulnerability. Nassereddine found that this router allows access to an administrator interface page without any authorization […]
Carna Botnet
How big is the internet? How long would t take to scan the whole thing? These questions have been answered in The Internet Census 2012. Yes, someone took the time and effort to map the entire internet. But how? With a botnet of course! But this botnet was different. Normally, botnets consist of virus-infected computers […]
Chuck Norris
That’s right. Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris is the name of a botnet that was recently discovered by Czech researchers. Why “Chuck Norris”. Well, it comes from a comment that was written in Italian in the botnet’s source code: “in nome di Chuck Norris,” which means “in the name of Chuck Norris.” Okay, but WHY Check […]