Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by takyon on Wednesday May 27 2015, @01:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the feeling-vulnerable dept.

For the first time, DNS redirection attacks against small office and home office (SOHO) routers are being delivered via exploit kits. French security researcher Kafeine said an offshoot of the Sweet Orange kit has been finding success in driving traffic from compromised routers to the attackers' infrastructure.The risk to users is substantial he said, ranging from financial loss, to click-fraud, man-in-the-middle attacks and phishing.

Perhaps it's time to demand OpenWrt compatibility? It's without backdoors by design, with continuous bug fixes, IPv6 support and unrestrained configuration capability. Embedded boxes seems to have a poor track record on bugs, transparency and robustness.


[Editor's Comment: Original Submission]

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 2) by Kromagv0 on Wednesday May 27 2015, @02:40PM

    by Kromagv0 (1825) on Wednesday May 27 2015, @02:40PM (#188624) Homepage

    This is why family members ask me for wireless routers for Christmas. Usually it is because they are having problems with the crap one they got from their ISP. I get a reasonable one un-box it, test it, install OpenWRT, and configure it so all they have to do is take it home and put it in place of their old one.

    --
    T-Shirts and bumper stickers [zazzle.com] to offend someone
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   2