Cisco has patched a clutch of high-priority vulnerabilities in its SD-WAN routes and their management software.
Tag Archives: Routers
Author of record-setting IoT botnets pleads guilty
He kept working on new botnets (and swatting a co-conspirator-cum-competitor) while indicted and on supervised release.
Most home routers lack simple Linux OS hardening security
A new assessment of 28 popular models for home users failed to find a single one with firmware that had fully enabled underlying security hardening features offered by Linux.
Botnet pwns 100,000 routers using ancient security flaw
Researchers have stumbled on another large botnet that’s been hijacking home routers while nobody was paying attention.
China hijacking internet traffic using BGP, claim researchers
Researchers claim that unusual BGP routing changes are actually man-in-the-middle surveillance.
Serious D-Link router security flaws may never be patched
Six routers with serious security flaws are considered end of life (EOL) and may never be updated.
Possible Satori botnet hacker indicted by Feds
A 20 year-old man has been indicted for computer crimes by a federal court in Alaska. Evidence suggests that he could be linked to the Satori botnet that exploited a previously unknown bug in a Huawei router.
Check your router – list of routers affected by VPNFilter just got bigger
The list of routers VPNFilter can infect now includes another 56 models from Asus, D-Link, Huawei, Ubiquiti, UPVEL, and ZTE.
Remote code execution bug found in GPON routers, but how bad is it really?
An anonymous researcher recently disclosed two vulnerabilities in several older models of Dasan-made GPON routers.
SSCC 182 – What would the Pirate Party do? [PODCAST]
This week’s episode of our quarter-hour security podcast. Entertaining as well as accurate and educational – why not give it a listen?