Home Routers Pose Biggest Consumer Cyberthreat
Many of the same Linksys routers with flaws that make them vulnerable to infection by TheMoon ship with other doors and windows open.
Via slashdot:
The remote-access management flaw that allowed TheMoon worm to thrive on Linksys routers is far from the only vulnerability in that particular brand of hardware, though it might be simpler to call all home-based wireless routers gaping holes of insecurity than to list all the flaws in those of just one vendor.
Many of the same Linksys routers with flaws that make them vulnerable to infection by TheMoon ship with other doors and windows open.
Chief among them is a bug that would allow a remote user to access the administrative console of a Linksys router without logging in first, using ...