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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: 3, Informative) by choose another one on Tuesday July 07 2020, @09:45PM (2 children)
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
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.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Wednesday July 08 2020, @09:48AM
What about Vatican City, the only country with 2.1 popes per square kilometer?