Post week 3

Malware-Lobbing Hackers Seize 300,000 Routers

            “More than 300,000 home and small-office (SOHO) routers have been compromised by hackers and are being used to distribute massive quantities of spam and malware.”   This is really a scary thought. If router manufacturers aren't proactively hardening equipment they sell to the SOHO market, it's hard to imagine that the Internet of Things products in the pipeline will be any more secure. According to article the hackers are achieved how to access our router home, so we have to update new firmware to D-link router. ‘The attackers appear to have gained access to the routers by exploiting known flaws in the devices to gain administrative access and change their DNS settings.”

 

http://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks-and-breaches/malware-lobbing-hackers-seize-300000-routers/d/d-id/1114109