[GLLUG] Home Router Vulnerabilities

eos at draggi.es eos at draggi.es
Wed Apr 29 13:19:48 EDT 2015


This will probably help: 
http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/49350/is-dd-wrt-generally-more-secure-than-manufacturers-firmware

On 2015-04-29 10:31, Chick Tower wrote:
> I've been reading that most home routers are woefully insecure.  By
> replacing the firmware in these routers, do projects like DD-WRT and
> Tomato remove these vulnerabilities and make the routers secure?
> Granted, they might have vulnerabilities of their own, but they
> haven't been in the news for that, and I would expect open-source
> router firmware to be more secure than proprietary router firmware,
> whose manufacturers look at security as a cost item to be minimized.



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