Friday, June 26th, 2015
New data from Microsoft MVP and researcher Patrick Barker shows that Samsung has been disabling Windows Update on at least some of its laptops distributed with Windows 8 and 8.1, and the company’s responses thus far have been astonishingly tone-deaf. Not only does Samsung disable the Windows Update capability, it ...
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2015
I'm helping someone reconfigure their home network and realized that I never posted about the Y-router configuration. Most folks have a home modem that is leased from their ISP and most of these newer modems have built-in router functionality and provide both LAN and WLAN connectivity, but this modem is ...
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2015
Millions of routers and other embedded devices are affected by a serious vulnerability that could allow hackers to compromise them.
The vulnerability is located in a service called NetUSB, which lets devices connected over USB to a computer be shared with other machines on a local network or the Internet. The ...
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Thursday, March 26th, 2015
Of all the various malware attack vectors, hacking a person’s router is one of the most effective. A new report from Ara Labs highlights how router attacks have evolved in recent years, and details a new method of serving unwanted advertising via intercepted Google Analytics information.
When evil routers attack
The reason ...
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2015
There is no such thing as perfect security. Given enough knowledge, resources, and time any system can be compromised. The best you can do is to make it as difficult for an attacker as possible. That said there are steps you can take to harden your network against the vast ...
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