Fifteen zero days found in hacker router comp romp Researchers have unveiled 15 zero day vulnerabilities in four home and small business routers as part of the SOHOpelessly Broken hacker competition in DEF CON this week. Four of the 10 routers offered for attack including the ASUS RT-AC66U; Netgear Centria WNDR4700; Belkin N900, and TRENDnet TEW-812DRU were fully compromised …
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The Linksys EA6500; Netgear WNR3500U/WNR3500L; TP-Link TL-WR1043ND; D-Link DIR-865L, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Open Wireless Router firmware were either untested or emerged unscathed.
But which was which? It's a very important distinction between not tested and tested but survived.
Its not the homehub that needs to be investigated. Its the mysterious white box you get with infinity that should be looked at. Ive had a crack and there is a web interface on it. The honehub itself is actually preconfigured to trust everything from that box and itballows certain traffic through...for diagnostics you understand.
The D-link sometimes can't be accessed even by the owner with admin password and hardwired ethernet port, let alone by the wan access!
I had to needle-reset mine more than once because of this. But it was not the 865L.
I had couple D-Link APs/routers once upon a time (DWL-2100 or something along those lines) and they definitely had a habit of locking up after a while. Likewise they went through PSUs like mad. Come to think of it had some D-Link hubs/switches which also suffered from PSU issues. More than once had to have it replaced under warranty.
Do D-Links have PSUs that last longer than 9-12 months now?
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