Serious Vulnerabilities Found in Popular Home Wireless Routers

TheKid7 · Apr 8, 2013

Serious Vulnerabilities Found in Popular Home Wireless Routers:

Hackers love to attack Java. Why? Well, not only because it is full of holes, but because it’s everywhere, embedded on endpoints, Web browsers, mobile devices and more. The same goes for attacking wireless routers; they’re buggy and they’re everywhere...........
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http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/serious-vulnerabilities-found-popular-home-wireless-routers-040813

Mman79 · Apr 8, 2013

Pretty much already covered here: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=344913

Page42 · Apr 9, 2013

“The major difference between these vulnerabilities and the more traditional PC-based vulnerabilities (such as Java and Windows vulnerabilities) is that the existence of vendor patches doesn't really matter,” said Tod Beardsley, engineering manager at Rapid7. “Even if vendors release patched firmware for these devices, the vast majority of users will never learn about them. There aren’t automatic update functions on any of these devices, and there is nothing like anti-virus software that can run on these low-memory, low-power devices. As a result, these kinds of bugs are extremely long-lived.”
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This aspect of it will add to the problem substantially.
Thanks for the article, Kid.

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