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Story: Worm breeds botnet from home routers, modemsTotal Replies: 4
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jezuch

Mar 25, 2009
3:02 AM EDT 		If you think about it, home routers and similar stuff are a perfect target for malware: they're rushed to market (probably with little QA and lots of bugs) and never updated. And we're seeing malware targeting it only now? Strange...
tuxtom

Mar 25, 2009
3:48 AM EDT 		Good point. We need the government to protect us from that.
jdixon

Mar 25, 2009
6:53 AM EDT 		> ...and never updated.

Though apparently updating the firmware fixes the problem, at least on most of these models..
tuxtom

Mar 26, 2009
5:21 AM EDT 		@jezuch: I've been to the offices of a company developing consumer-grade wireless routers and I can confirm your observation. They weren't even using source control for the firmware builds..email was it!!! What's Q/A??? Questions and Answers? What are you talking about?
jezuch

Mar 26, 2009
3:46 PM EDT
Quoting:They weren't even using source control for the firmware builds..email was it!!! What's Q/A??? Questions and Answers? What are you talking about?


Now that's scary...

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