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Reboot Your Router for Security

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday June 06 2018, @10:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-about-patches dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

"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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @03:31AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @03:31AM (#689709)

    Yeah, people can be self taught, but if someone aspires to be a professional, why not get the certs?
    I've read quite a lot of medicine, I trust my judgment on myself, but like hell I would let some other "self-taught" smartass start cutting me.

  • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Thursday June 07 2018, @11:23AM

    by Pino P (4721) on Thursday June 07 2018, @11:23AM (#689812) Journal

    if someone aspires to be a professional, why not get the certs?

    Rent-seeking by incumbents in an industry may have driven the cost of obtaining certs up to a level too high for a part-timer.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 08 2018, @01:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 08 2018, @01:47AM (#690151)

    Yeah, people can be self taught, but if someone aspires to be a professional, why not get the certs?/quote.

    Because maybe they don't aspire to be a professional, even if they have enough knowledge and experience to be one? Plenty of software developers were self-taught, especially in the past. As a society, we are too concerned with credentialism.