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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
(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Tuesday July 07 2020, @05:13PM (1 child)
That's just for wireless. It works well in that context, but there is only a single gigabit Ethernet port on those things. It would be great to have some open hardware for building wired network appliances with 8, 12, 16, and 24 gigabit Ethernet ports, and maybe even a fibre connection or two. Maybe MIPS or Octeon or similar would work for that, but not ARM. I don't suppose that the Raspberry Pi Foundation could be hired for that because ARM is not appropriate for networking. However, maybe if Bunnie Huang could be hired, then a kickstarter or similar could be launched to collect the funds for the salary and other capital he would need to design or supervise the design of open hardware for networking and hand it off to Google for prototyping.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Wednesday July 08 2020, @01:24AM
https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/journal/5549 [soylentnews.org]
This is not what you are looking for, but it's an "SBC" (technically not since the memory is in DIMMs) with 2x 2.5 GbE, which might be all you really need.
Plug the internet or other source into one port, and any dumb switch with several ports into the other, and you have something potentially useful. If there is a version with 2x 10 GbE instead, then the scheme would support even more intensive use.
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