[Discuss] Router Security Issue - Most home routers 'vulnerable to remote take-over'

[Graham Watson]

I have a Linksys WRT54G that I flashed with
DDWRT<http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/ddwrt.php>
;
It's nice because among many other features, it allows for disabling of UPnP
- I found that with international students living in my house (heavy
internet users ;) ), having UPnP enabled cause a lot of network slowdowns.
Once I disabled it - no more network slowdowns. That aside, I am  also quite
suspicious of a 'feature' that will allow any random app to open ports
without my knowledge or say so.
This article seems to back up that suspicion - thanks for passing it along,
Kari.

On Jan 17, 2008 8:32 AM, Kari Kostamo <Kari.Kostamo at kckbiz.com> wrote:

>
> I was going through one of the other mailling lists I belong to and came
> across this:
>
> Anyone who has a home router connected to the net should check out
> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/01/15/home_router_insecurity/
>
> It is very interesting.
>
> Kari
>
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Graham