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New SOHO Router Security Audit Uncovers Over 60 Flaws In 22 Models

posted by janrinok on Thursday June 04 2015, @09:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the never-mind-the-quality,-give-me-your-money dept.

kaszz writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2015, @06:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2015, @06:54AM (#192395)

    I saw this the other day [banggood.com] it's very cheap and supports OpenWRT. You might want to do your own research on it, but it seems to work for others. I considered it, but ended up giving it a pass due to the 100Mbps ethernet and only 3 ports (1 WAN, 2 LAN), I could make do with 3 ports for my main router, but really would like Gigabit on my main router, I might consider it for a Wifi bridge, but I want 4-5 ports for that. I may still end up getting it for the price, and making do, but for now I'll stick with my ISP router, which at least has Gigabit ethernet and also has dual-band wifi with ac, I did have to switch the DHCP server and DNS to my Banapi (which is also my file server) to get a bit more control over my network. It was just with my last connection upgrade from my ISP my old Linksys WRT54G v1.1 just couldn't keep up, so I had to use the ISP router, until I find a good replacement that runs OpenWRT.

    N.B. I linked to Banggood because that is where I originally saw it, you may be able to get it elsewhere, my experience with Banggood is that they are cheap, and I do get what I order eventually, I've had no experience with their customer service though. I've used them because they had things I couldn't find elsewhere at the time.