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 […]
A new worm that propagates itself from router to router has been discovered by Security researcher Johannes B. Ullrich of the SANS Technology Institute. This Linksys worm was named “The Moon” because it includes some basic HTML pages with images based on the movie “The Moon”. The worm takes advantage of vulnerabilities in several Linksys products, including the models: […]
A new and dangerous vulnerability is being reported against certain Linksys routers. Apparently, if the “Classic” interface is being used instead of the newer “Smart” interface, Remote Administration is enabled whether or not it has been enabled in the user interface. This is obviously pretty bad since it will give anyone on the internet an […]
Phil Purviance, a security researcher from San Jose in California has published a manifesto entitled Don’t Use Linksys Routers, which outlines a series of security vulnerabilities that he’s found in their products. In his post Purviance claims that: I hooked it up and spent maybe 30 minutes testing the security of the embedded website used to […]
Interesting article from a few years back about vulnerabilities with the BT Home Hub. Testing showed that it contains several very serious vulnerabilities. Don’t want to read the article? No problem, just watch the video.
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 […]