Popular home routers contain critical security vulnerabilities

April 18, 2013

Thirteen popular home and small office routers contain security problems that could allow a hacker to snoop or modify network traffic, according to new research.Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), which is a security consultancy based in Baltimore, found that all of the routers they tested could be taken over if the hacker had access credentials. The tested products came from Linksys, Belkin, Netgear, Verizon and D-Link.All of the router models evaluated ran their company's latest firmware and were tested with their default, out-of-the-box configurations. Consumers have few options for mitigating the attacks, ISE said in its report."Successful mitigation often requires a level of sophistication and skill beyond that of the average user," ISE said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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