Your Router May Be A Weak Link In Your IT Infrastructure
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https://www.cnet.com/news/top-wi-fi-routers-easy-to-hack-says-study/
The Wi-Fi router you use to broadcast a private wireless Internet signal in your home or office is not only easy to hack, says a report released today, but the best way to protect yourself is out of your hands.
The report, written by research firm Independent Security Evaluators of Baltimore, found that 13 of the most popular off-the-shelf wireless routers could be exploited by a “moderately skilled adversary with LAN or WLAN access.” It also concludes that your best bet for safer Wi-Fi depends on router vendors upping their game. All 13 routers evaluated can be taken over from the local network, with four of those requiring no active management session. Eleven of the 13 can be taken over from a Wide-Area Network (WAN) such as a wireless network, with two of those requiring no active management session.
My router’s not safe? Really? “It is not a safe assumption to make that you’re safe,” Steve Bono, the company’s CEO and principal security analyst, told CNET in a phone interview.
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