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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 07 2020, @02:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the keep-up-to-date-with-updates dept.

Millions Of Home Wi-Fi Routers Are Likely Vulnerable To Unpatched Linux Security Exploits

If you're reading this article from home, it's likely that you're connected to a consumer-grade Wi-Fi router, either wirelessly or via hard wired Ethernet. And if that's the case, you should probably take this time to upgrade your router's firmware ASAP. That is if an update is even available from the manufacturer.

We say this because the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication (FKIE) in Germany recently performed test of 127 home routers, to probe them for their resistance to security threats. Of the routers the researchers tested, 91 percent of them were found to be running some version of embedded Linux, which isn't surprising.

What was surprising, however, was that the researchers found that not a single router was free of security flaws. In fact, it was discovered that many of these routers were actually susceptible to hundreds of known security vulnerabilities.

Reference:
Peter Weidenbach, Johannes vom Dorp. Home Router Security Report 2020 (pdf), FKIE


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by choose another one on Tuesday July 07 2020, @03:14PM (7 children)

    by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 07 2020, @03:14PM (#1017690)

    Maybe let them finish with doing pandemic management right first...

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by DannyB on Tuesday July 07 2020, @03:20PM (6 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 07 2020, @03:20PM (#1017695) Journal

    I thought they had finished that and the USA was Number One! MAGA!!!

    I eagerly await the government to help us with our home technology issues. And everything. Like a benevolent older male sibling.

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by choose another one on Tuesday July 07 2020, @04:21PM (5 children)

      by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 07 2020, @04:21PM (#1017741)

      > I thought they had finished that and the USA was Number One! MAGA!!!

      Not on per-capita death rate, and everyone knows having more cases is only down to more testing...

      Still, credit where it's due, USA is definitely heading up the league table, some way to go before you catch the likes of France/Spain/Italy/UK though.

      Keep those masks off, breathe deep and keep those parties and protests going and you should be in good shape for a winning surge come Autumn...

      • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday July 07 2020, @08:14PM (4 children)

        by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 07 2020, @08:14PM (#1017850) Journal

        If the US isn't number one on the per capita COVID death rate, then who is?

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        • (Score: 3, Informative) by choose another one on Tuesday July 07 2020, @09:45PM (2 children)

          by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 07 2020, @09:45PM (#1017893)

          According to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ [worldometers.info] top 5 as of today is:

          1 San Marino 1,238
          2 Belgium 843
          3 Andorra 673
          4 UK 654
          5 Spain 607

          Numbers are deaths / 1m population. USA comes in at number 9 with 404.

          • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday July 08 2020, @03:27AM

            by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 08 2020, @03:27AM (#1018037) Journal

            That's interesting. I'd forgotten about Belgium, and didn't know about San Marino, but the reports from Britain have been putting the US at more deaths/capita than them...and those weren't by people saying good things about the government.

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          • (Score: 2) by driverless on Wednesday July 08 2020, @09:48AM

            by driverless (4770) on Wednesday July 08 2020, @09:48AM (#1018121)

            What about Vatican City, the only country with 2.1 popes per square kilometer?

        • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday July 08 2020, @12:21AM

          by Grishnakh (2831) on Wednesday July 08 2020, @12:21AM (#1017941)

          As the other poster pointed out with a link, USA is #9 currently in per-capita deaths, and we're #13 in per-capita infections. For infections, we might pass Peru soon, or Panama might pass us. We're easily far behind Qatar (#1 at over 3.5% of the population being infected; we're only at 0.94%). However, infection rate doesn't correlate well with deaths: Qatar might have a huge number of infections, but they only have 134 deaths, or 48 per 1 million (compared to our 405 per 1M). Most likely, Qatar has done a better job with testing early on.

          The more important number is the death rate, where we're #9, and slowly rising. We're still behind France, Sweden, Italy, Spain, UK, and Belgium, but those countries' death rates have mostly fallen to very low numbers now, whereas our rate is now rising again. However, if you're worried about the USA looking too incompetent, fear not: Brazil, Chile, and Peru are all racing ahead, and will probably catch up with us before long.

          The only place where USA is absolutely #1 is with the absolute number of cases, which is now about 3.1M. But as the #3 most-populated country on the planet, with 331M people, this shouldn't be too big a surprise. Most other countries have a fraction of our population, so of course their absolute numbers are going to be lower (though Brazil is trying really hard to beat us, with almost 1.7M cases now).