More than 300,000 routers in homes and small businesses hacked

Posted by finid on Mar 5, 2014 1:59 AM EDT
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Most of the hacked routers have the following common features: Owners who didn’t know how to configure their routers, insecure default settings (factory-default passwords was not an issue), backdoors in firmware, firmware version vulnerable to a known Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF) technique, and graphical user interfaces accessible from the Internet.

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