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 […]
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
There’s some excellent work going on in Baltimore, where Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) has just published a report on the current state of security in home routers. The verdict: Abysmal. ISE tested 13 of the most popular routers available: Linksys WRT310Nv2 Belkin F5D8236-4 v2 Belkin N300 Belkin N900 Netgear WNDR4700 TP-Link WR1043N Verizon Actiontec D-Link DIR-865L […]
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Ever wonder why vulnerabilities in router firmware are shared by so many models and firmware versions? Well the answer is simple – code reuse. Different vendors may be making different hardware, but much of the software that underlies the operation of the device isn’t. Software has always been the red-headed stepchild of device manufacturing, and […]
Okay, quick quiz: Let’s say that you’ve disabled Remote Administration on your router. How can an attacker gain access to the router’s administrator interface from across the internet to try to guess the password and break in? Answer: Trick question! There’s no way to you can see the administrator interface from the internet side of […]