Verizon Wireless to expose customers’ browsing to advertisers

Saturday, April 26th, 2014

As far as corporate notices go, they don't get much creepier than this recent alert from US telco Verizon Wireless. The company says it's "enhancing" its Relevant Mobile Advertising program, which it uses to collect data on customers' online habits so that marketers can pitch stuff at them with greater precision. "In ...

WPA2 wireless security cracked

Friday, March 21st, 2014

There are various ways to protect a wireless network. Some are generally considered to be more secure than others. Some, such as WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy), were broken several years ago and are not recommended as a way to keep intruders away from private networks. Now, a new study published ...

Security vulnerabilities found in 80% of best-selling SOHO wireless routers

Friday, February 21st, 2014

Tripwire has analyzed the security provided by the most popular wireless routers used in many small and home offices and found that 80 percent of Amazon’s top 25 best-selling SOHO wireless router models have security vulnerabilities. Of these vulnerable models, 34 percent have publicly documented exploits that make it relatively simple ...

Exploit released for vulnerability targeted by Linksys router worm

Monday, February 17th, 2014

Technical details about a vulnerability in Linksys routers that's being exploited by a new worm have been released Sunday along with a proof-of-concept exploit and a larger than earlier expected list of potentially vulnerable device models. Last week, security researchers from the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center identified a self-replicating malware ...

Wi-Fi routers: More security risks than ever

Saturday, August 3rd, 2013

More major brand-name Wi-Fi router vulnerabilities continue to be discovered, and continue to go unpatched, a security researcher has revealed at Defcon 21. Jake Holcomb, a security researcher at the Baltimore, Md.-based firm Independent Security Evaluators and the lead researcher into Wi-Fi router vulnerabilities, said that problem is worse than when ISE ...