Employers who have suddenly shifted a large percentage of their workforce to remote due to Covid-19 no doubt will shudder by the findings of a new Frauhofer Institute study that concluded no home router was without security vulnerabilities. The German tech think tank analyzed 127 home routers from seven manufacturers sold in Europe and found that 46 of them hadn’t a security update within 12 months, and some hadn’t been updated for more than five years. The lion’s share (91 percent) of the routers use Linux OS, but many manufacturers don’t integrate fixes when they’re available from Linux kernel maintainers. Vendors can distribute security patches to their devices far more often, but do not, Fraunhofer found, and to make matters even worse, many of the routers are powered by a very old version of Linux.
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@Kiri Addison, Head of Data Science for Threat Intelligence and Overwatch , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
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@Craig Young, Principal Security Researcher , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"A vendor can release updates on a regular basis but still ignore security researchers...."
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@Craig Young, Principal Security Researcher , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
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@James MacQuiggan, Security Awareness Advocate, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Similar to smartphones or computers, these devices need to be updated to reduce an opportunity for exploitation by cybercriminals. ..."
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@James MacQuiggan, Security Awareness Advocate, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Similar to smartphones or computers, these devices need to be updated to reduce an opportunity for exploitation by cybercriminals. ..."
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