| Home routers still vulnerable? Some (Belkin comes to mind) routers provide a local DNS cache for the LAN side. I'm not aware of any large scale push to get owners to upgrade their router firmware.
Perhaps the same attack can still work? |
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| Firmwares? What are firmwares? Never heard of 'em.
Yeah, I agree with you, but this is the reaction you're going to get from many people. They can't even secure their routers. They don't have a clue what firmware is or how to update it. |
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kudos:4 | said by ISurfTooMuch:Firmwares? What are firmwares? Never heard of 'em. Yeah, I agree with you, but this is the reaction you're going to get from many people. They can't even secure their routers. They don't have a clue what firmware is or how to update it. People are getting better about securing their routers. i used to have 6 open routers avail to me, now only have two. it'll get even better as pay ber byte comes.
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| I'm seeing more secured as well, but I chalk that up to living near lots of college students who are more tech-savvy. There are plenty of open ones out there, though. I have a friend whose WRT54G occasionally craps out on him. Instead of just rebooting it, he just disconnects it and plugs his cable modem directly into his desktop. I usually discover this when I take my laptop over there and discover there's either no signal or no Internet access. So there's still a learning curve for many people. |
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