A massive Hack of Mass Destruction has been unleashed on routers primarily in Asia. Discovered by Team Cymru, this attack is believed to have affected over 300,000 devices, primarily in Vietnam, India and Italy. The attack modifies the DNS settings on the compromised routers, and points them to DNS servers that are controlled by criminals. […]
Customers of British ISP AAISP have been hit by a Pharming attack – one that modifies their DNS settings in their routers and directs them to websites that are controlled by an attacker. It turns out that this attack was part of the larger one that is being reported by Team Cymru. The most interesting […]
Steve Sant, who works in security at British ISP Krystal has reported on the current state of home router attacks from an ISPs vantage point. He gives a good overview of what’s going on with these attacks, and shares some information about the types of things he sees at the ISP level. You can read […]
Eloi Vanderbeken of Synacktiv Digital Security has discovered a very interesting backdoor into Linksys and Netgear routers. He found it during Christmas vacation at his family’s home where he needed access to a Linksys WAG200G wireless DSL gateway, but didn’t have the password. Scanning the network he found that the device was listening on port 32764. Since this […]
Computer security expert Bruce Shneier wrote an excellent editorial in Wired Magazine about the security of Internet of Things device. He makes some excellent points about the dangers that are lurking in embedded systems and how they’re quickly becoming the go-to strategy for many hackers. If we don’t solve this soon, we’re in for a […]
Computer security firm Tripwire has released a new report on the current state of security for home and small office routers. This report on home routers contains findings from a survey of 653 IT professionals and 1009 employees who work remotely in the US and UK. What they found should not be surprising if you’ve […]
What’s currently the biggest cyberthreat to consumers? Phishing attacks? Problems with SSL? Nope, according to Kevin Fogarty it’s home-based routers. He gives a pretty good overview of the entire threat landscape and explains what the dangers are.
There’s a good article on home router security that’s worth taking a look at. It’s a bit of a survey and contains information about some of the current hot topics: The Linksys Moon worm HNAP issues UPnP issues CSRF problems Polish cybercrimes
Imagine that you’ve plugged your USB hard drive filled with lots of files (i.e. movies, music, your personal records) into your new router so that everyone on the network can get access to them as well as giving you secure access to them from wherever you are. Pretty cool, huh, nice feature. Many routers are […]
Ever since the discovery of the Linksys “Moon” worm that relies on HNAP, many people have been interested in this protocol. What is it? What is it vulnerable to? HNAP or Home Network Administration Protocol was developed by Pure Networks for their Network Magic product – a system to make managing home networks more easily. This […]