FTC Forces Asus To Improve Router Security (helpnetsecurity.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The FTC is actively trying to make sure that companies secure the software and devices that they provide to consumers, and a settlement with Taiwan-based hardware maker ASUSTeK Computer is one step towards that goal. The complaint was raised after well-meaning hackers exploited a weakness on Asus routers and left note on victims' drives notifying them of the matter. Later, a researcher discovered an exploit campaign that abused vulnerabilities to change vulnerable routers' DNS servers. According to the settlement, the company will have to establish and maintain a comprehensive security program subject to independent audits for the next 20 years.

Comments

Re:sadly, Asus is one of the better ones

[thona]

SERIOUSLY? Amazing. Your low standards, that is. Have a look at Mikrotik - not for someone not knowing what they do, but THEY do updates for TONS of years, are cheap and provide serious enterprise grade features. From a super cheap 40 USD router to a 36 core backbone router.

The FCC prevents users from securing their routers

[Britz]

All the while the FCC and the EU are working on preventing users from protecting themselves by modifying the routers firmware:

http://tech.slashdot.org/story...

Re:Overreach much?

[myowntrueself]

OK, is Microsoft next?

I was about to post the exact same thing. I'm glad the foreign company was censured for its bad security practices, but when does our home-grown American company get the same?

This hasn't been true of MS for some time. They are actually pretty good now.

This post is about to be modded to oblivion as a troll, but I'll say it anyway. Last year OSX and iOS each had more security vulnerabilities than any Microsoft product. They had more vulnerabilities than FLASH.

(Yes, on /. a factual statement is a troll if it casts Apple in a bad light)