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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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If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers?
(Score: 3, Informative) by digitalaudiorock on Thursday June 07 2018, @05:55PM
Some time back I bought a Linksys WRT1900AC and flashed it with dd-wrt and I've been pretty happy with that. However I do have one complaint: Apparently between some of the early versions of that model and the one I got they went fanless. The older models had a fan. I like many others found out the hard way that the heatsink didn't quite cut it, and I needed to put a USB powered fan on top of it, as it was crashing in the hot weather. The USB fan brought the temperature down almost a full 20 degrees C if I recall, and it's been great with that.
That aside, a nice feature of this and similar Linksys models is that there are two boot partitions, and flashing the firmware always flashes to the one currently not in use. This means that you're effectively immune to the usual risks of bricking the router when flashing with the likes of dd-wrt. What I've done is to leave the factory firmware on one of them. When I want to reflash new firmware there's a command you can run at a shell prompt to cause the router to reboot to that, and I flash the new dd-wrt from the factory firmware. In the event of a failed flash there's a sequence you can use to force it to boot from the working boot partition (I'm not home at the moment so I'm a little short of details here).