RouterCheck just released a study entitled “The Real State of WiFi Security in the Connected Home” that contains information about network security in the average home. This study is unique and the first of its kind because it is based on data that was gathered over a three month period from real users of the […]
RouterCheck, the system that helps you find security problems with your home router has an exciting new feature: RouterCheck Support. RouterCheck Support is fully integrated into the RouterCheck app, and helps you fix the problems that RouterCheck has identified for your home network. It addresses an issue that many of our users have identified: once […]
We’re very happy to announce that RouterCheck, the application that helps consumers assess their home network’s security, is now open to the public. No longer will you need an invitation to download and run RouterCheck, everyone is now invited. RouterCheck represents a new security solution to a growing problem. Many people are now concerned with […]
SOHO Router vendor DrayTek has just published a security White Paper for running a wireless router in your home or small business. Our take on this “Wireless Best Practices”: we love stuff like this! The more people hear these messages from diverse sources, the better. DrayTek has kept its recommendations vendor-neutral, so they can be […]
Dan Geer, the chief information security officer for In-Q-Tel, which invests in technology on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency, gave a very sobering keynote address to the audience at the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas. In his speech he discussed computer security, public policy, and the directions that he believes the industry […]
DefCon 22 is set to open today in Las Vegas, and that can only mean one thing: the contest for hacking routers, also known as SOHOpelessly Broken is set to begin. This contest, co-sponsored by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Independent Security Evaluators is set to pit the world’s greatest router hackers against each other […]
It’s no secret that router security is pretty lousy, that’s the whole point of creating RouterCheck in the first place. But we never thought that there’d be a competition that’s based on this lousiness. That’s why we were so surprised to see that there’s now a contest for finding vulnerabilities and breaking into routers. The […]
Nicole Kobie writing for British computer magazine PC Pro has a great article about the dangers of home routers and the security issues that they cause. Articles like this are important as they’re able to inform more people as to the problems that they may encounter. A few interesting highlights: Attacks are happening with more […]
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 […]
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.