routers | DataProtectionCenter.com

Most Wi-Fi routers susceptible to hacking through security feature

30

Dec

2011

Stefan Viehbock, an independent security researcher, published a paper on Boxing Day titled “Brute forcing Wi-Fi Protected Setup” to his WordPress blog disclosing a weakness in the configuration of most consumer/SoHo Wi-Fi routers. As we all know the state of security for most home Wi-Fi networks was nearly non-existent only a few years ago. This […]

Category General Written by Naked Security - Sophos 0 Comments

Massive DNS poisoning attacks in Brazil

07

Nov

2011

In the past few days several Brazilian ISPs have fallen victim to a series of DNS cache poisoning attacks. These attacks see users being redirected to install malware before connecting to popular sites. Some incidents have also featured attacks on network devices, where routers or modems are compromised remotely. Brazil has some big ISPs. Official […]

Category General Written by Securelist / Blog 0 Comments

IPv6 Fragmentation

25

Jul

2011

Fragmentation has been a frequent source of security vulnerabilities in IPv4, and for good reason. With fragmented IPv4 packets, the layer 4 header information is not available in the second through the last fragment. The process of fragmentation and fragment reassembly can create unexpected and harmful behaviors in intermediate nodes (such as firewalls and routers) […]

Category Security Written by Arbor Networks 0 Comments

The Latest in IT Security

Posts Tagged ‘routers’

Most Wi-Fi routers susceptible to hacking through security feature

Massive DNS poisoning attacks in Brazil

IPv6 Fragmentation

Categories

Featured

Archives

Latest Comments

About Us

Contact Us