Wi-Fi routers: More security risks than ever


More major brand-name Wi-Fi router vulnerabilities continue to be discovered, and continue to go unpatched, a security researcher has revealed at Defcon 21, CNET reports. Jake Holcomb, a security researcher at the Baltimore, Md.-based firm Independent Security Evaluators and the lead researcher into Wi-Fi router vulnerabilities, said that problem is worse than when ISE released its original findings in April. The latest study continues to show that the small office and home office Wi-Fi routers are “very vulnerable to attack,” Holcomb said…

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