If you haven't changed the default password on your home router, let this recent threat serve as a reminder. Attackers could change the configuration of home routers using JavaScript code, security ...

Home network users could be vulnerable to attacks from hackers who can alter the configuration of a broadband router or wireless access point. Symantec released its “Drive-By Pharming” attacks report ...

Whether you have a Wi-Fi network at home or live close to a few, you’ve seen a list pop up asking you to choose one whenever you either reboot your device or are somewhere new. If there’s a lock next ...

Well, i have a consumer grade netgear router that can route 255 addresses-not that you'd want to. But the usual subnet mask for this kind of thing is 255.255.255.0<BR><BR>What happens when you plug in ...

Routers appear to be as insecure as ever, after hackers successfully compromised five popular wireless models during a contest at the DefCon 22 security conference, reporting 15 new vulnerabilities to ...

Who doesn’t know the struggle? Buying an interesting piece of hardware for a song and a dance, and then finding that the device’s firmware and/or configuration file is locked down with various ...

Several DSL routers from different manufacturers contain a guessable hard-coded password that allows accessing the devices with a hidden administrator account. According to an alert issued Tuesday by ...

I've had to go in and modify the configuration website on some to get them to take "strange" network parameters. There's usually no server-side checking, just client-side checking in the form. There ...

French internet users scared of falling victim to the country’s new controversial anti-filesharing law may have just been handed the easiest defence line ever. It’s all down to a group of hackers and ...

There’s a wireless router gathering dust in Bob LaRocca’s office. It’s yours if you can hack into his network. First, some background. LaRocca is director of IT security with the School District of ...

TL;DR: GreyNoise uncovered the AyySSHush botnet infecting over 8,000 hosts, mainly ASUS routers, exploiting known bypass bugs to gain persistent SSH backdoor access that survives firmware updates.