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Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits

Accepted submission by chromas at 2020-07-06 23:18:57
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chromas [soylentnews.org] writes:

Millions Of Home Wi-Fi Routers Are Likely Vulnerable To Unpatched Linux Security Exploits [hothardware.com]

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 [fraunhofer.de] (pdf), FKIE

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