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Backdoor Discovered In Netgear and Linkys Routers
An anonymous reader writes "A hacker has found a backdoor in the Linksys WAG200G router, that gives access to the admin panel without authentication. Further research shows that these devices are made by Sercomm, meaning that Cisco, Watchguard, Belkin and various others maybe affected as well. From the article: 'The backdoor requires that the attacker be on the local network, so this isn’t something that could be used to remotely attack DSL users. However, it could be used to commandeer a wireless access point and allow an attacker to get unfettered access to local network resources.'"
and 'busy' people are often the ones throwing away their money because they choose not to attempt anything that might have even the slightest learning curve and/or time commitment to it..
There's no free lunch, but that doesn't mean the negatives always outweigh the positives when choosing the less-traveled path.