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kaszz [soylentnews.org] 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 [itworld.com]. Full details of their research [seclists.org] 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 [wikipedia.org] may be an alternative.

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