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 […]
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 […]
When we began to look at the security issues with home routers, we ran right into a protocol called TR-069, also known as CWMP (customer-premises equipment wide area network management protocol). This protocol allows ISPs to remotely manage home networking devices that they provide to their subscribers. This means that they can to do things […]