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Home and small-office routers is a hot target for security audits. Vulnerabilities and poor security practices is becoming the rule, rather than the exception. Researchers from Universidad Europea de Madrid found 60 distinct flaws in 22 devices. Full details of their research can be read in the Full Disclosure mailing list. Affected brands include D-Link, Belkin, Linksys, Huawei, and others. Among the flaws are at least one backdoor with a hard-coded password. Several routers allow external attackers to delete files on USB storage devices, and others facilitate DDoS attacks. About half of the flaws involve Cross Site Scripting and Cross Site Request Forgery capabilities
Summary: COTS Embedded devices don't have security you can rely on, but why is that so? OpenWRT may be an alternative.
Original Submission
(Score: 2) by jdccdevel on Friday June 05 2015, @05:39AM
If you want to get a router running a open-source firmware, and don't have the time or inclination to research compatible routers to flash one yourself, there is always the flashrouters.com [flashrouters.com] website.
I'm not affiliated with them in any way, I just noticed that they're selling re-flashed consumer routers when doing some research a while back.
Even if you don't want to buy one from them [flashrouters.com], you can use their site to find out what routers are compatible with open-source firmware.
Seriously though, it looks like they have a very reasonable business model, and fewer routers running crappy stock firmware is definitely something I can support.
In a more direct answer to your question, it looks like the Cisco/Linksys E1200v2 is supported by dd-wrt and tomato. The latest (no longer updated!) stock firmware for these is actively being exploited in dns-hijacking attacks. As such, they are essentially worthless with the stock firmware. (People are throwing them away.) You could probably find some cheap on ebay.