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.
(Score: 2) by TLA on Friday June 05 2015, @01:59PM
I use a Chinese offbrand Busybox wired router off the Netgear cable router supplied by Virgin Media as a go-between (basically because I don't trust the Netgear which is userwalled to shit). I've had that Busybox for ten years now, never gave me a bit of trouble.
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