These are the words of Jessica Rich, the Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Bureau of Consumer Protection as part of a release detailing the resolution of the FTC’s settlement with Asus over their sale of consumer routers that had major security flaws. Saying that home routers have security flaws is really nothing new, our […]
Security researcher Kafeine recently discovered a web-based attack tool that hackers have been using to compromise home routers. The attack utilizes Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities that are present in many popular routers. The list of router vendors affected include: ASUS Belkin D-Link Edimax Linksys Medialink Microsoft Netgear Tenda TP-Link Trendnet ZyXEL The attack modifies the […]
SOHOpelessly Broken, the contest that tested router security and was run as part of the DEFCON hacker conference has announced the winner. The winner: Craig Young of security firm TripWire uncovered 11 of the 15 vulnerabilities that were found as a part of the contest. The real winners: hopefully all of us as the contest […]
We’re often asked, “What’s the best AC router to buy”? Well, that’s not such a simple question and doesn’t have such a simple answer. But the guys over at MaximumPC thought they’d tackle the question and look at the best 802.11ac routers on the market. Their results can be found here. What do they like? […]
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 […]