A security breach in Huawei routers points to a larger problem in your home. Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that home routers supplied by Chinese electronics giant Huawei to UK-based Vodafone ...

Researchers warn of copycat type attacks as exploit code used in Mirai variant goes public. Exploit code used in the Mirai malware variant called Satori, which was used to attack hundreds of thousands ...

A router is the piece of hardware in your home that makes wifi possible. Being able to change the settings on your router, and thus the security, name, and accessibility of your wifi, is essential for ...

Huawei will not patch a series of severe security flaws in more than a dozen commonly-used routers. The Chinese networking giant reportedly told security researcher Pierre Kim that it will not provide ...

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Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers are actively being probed for weak Telnet passwords and taken over by a new peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet dubbed Mozi and related to the Gafgyt malware as it reuses ...

A security researcher for German security firm Recurity Labs has disclosed several critical vulnerabilities in router products made by Huawei at the annual Defon hackers conference on Sunday. The ...

Most routers have a serial port used to connect to the serial port of your computer. Using Windows HyperTerminal, you can connect to the router and enter the commands necessary to set up the router on ...

How long does it take to build a botnet? Not long, if you consider Anarchy's 18,000-device-strong creation, brought to life in only 24 hours. The security teams realized there has been a huge recent ...

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It makes it simple for attackers to find devices to take over and add to botnets. A vulnerability in some Huawei routers used for carrier ISP services allows cybercriminals to identify whether the ...