Netgear fixes critical bugs as Five Eyes warn about break-ins at the edge

Netgear is advising customers to upgrade their firmware after it patched two critical vulnerabilities affecting multiple routers. The networking biz didn't reveal too much in the way of details for either vulnerability, including whether they had been exploited or not, but warned that if customers didn't follow the recommended …

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Five Eyes warn about break-ins at the edge

Ah Musk.

[Anonymous Coward]

Edge? Really?

Quote: "WAX214v2"

Quote: ".....break-ins at the edge..."

So....this device is a "WiFI-only" access point.

(1) Some other device (an ethernet switch, maybe) provides the ethernet LAN.

(2) Some other device (some sort of modem) provides connectivity to the internet.

So....I need some help understanding how this is an "edge" device.....

Doesn't item #2 above need to be hacked before this device can be hacked?

[David Hicklin]

Re: Edge? Really?

> So....I need some help understanding how this is an "edge" device.....

Implication is that anyone could access the WiFi device and once on there laterally move across your network, so yes it is an edge device by that definition

[David Hicklin]

EOL?

> include two that have reached end of life (EOL): WAX206 and WAX220

So I guess here the solutions is but new hardware or have Netgear been nice an issued an update for these as well??