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"The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning that a new malware threat has rapidly infected more than a half-million consumer devices. To help arrest the spread of the malware, the FBI and security firms are urging home Internet users to reboot routers and network-attached storage devices made by a range of technology manufacturers.
"The growing menace — dubbed VPNFilter — targets Linksys, MikroTik, NETGEAR and TP-Link networking equipment in the small and home office space, as well as QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) devices, according to researchers at Cisco."
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/fbi-kindly-reboot-your-router-now-please/
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In Tulsa, Oklahoma, it is against the law to open a soda bottle without
the supervision of a licensed engineer.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by sjames on Thursday June 07 2018, @02:13AM
To be fair, given the way the FBI has trashed it's own reputation year after year, my first thought when I saw that they were asking people to reboot was "hold on, let's think this through".