Researchers Hack Over a Dozen Home Routers

An anonymous reader writes "Security researchers at Independent Security Evaluators have published a report demonstrating that a slew of home and small office (SOHO) routers are vulnerable to previously undisclosed vulnerabilities. The report asserts that at least thirteen popular routers can be compromised by a remote attacker, and a number of them do not require knowledge of credentials or active management sessions. Some of the routers are not listed as they work with vendors to fix them, but there are 17 vulnerabilities disclosed, with another 21 pending release. An article on CNET includes an interview with some of the researchers."

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Re:Use a FreeBSD box as your firewall

[wonkey_monkey]

so you would sacrifice security for convenience? Then, you deserve neither*.

You're right. He should block all traffic and whitelist every single IP address as he needs to. Actually, he should manually inspect every packet he receives. Actually, he should have all his packets printed at a remote location and FedEx'd to him for examination and re-input.