On Friday the FBI issued a statement asking the public to reboot their routers. I did not do mine at home but my boss did. He was advising that we do the one at work also. The FBI released their statement on Friday at the start of a holiday weekend. I am sure many missed it. I did read a conspiracy that this has to do with end of net neutrality. That is probably just tinfoil. Have any monkeys rebooted their router? FBI urges public to reboot home routers amid malware attack FBI urges public to reboot home routers amid malware attack | CBC News Please follow the link for rest of the article. Here is a link to the official FBI PSA Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) | Foreign Cyber Actors Target Home and Office Routers and Networked Devices Worldwide
Are you kidding my drivers are 1247 days old........ if I can't be bothered to update them pushing a button to reboot the router is out of the question!
password protect your bios and run off a live medium a hard drive is only for storage and have it scanned regular,real hard to get in but you can be peeped on what you have on any drive connected to the net. All of the defenses are for hackers the agencies know what your doing wher3e and what you access on the net phone fax even snail mail if your that interesting. if your phone is on even what you say. Encryption since the 90's have all had a backdoor if you want real encryption older encryption software using AES, DES, Blowfish and encrypt the info. then palace in a jpg or gif and then encrypt that. with a different type and a different password if you send the password un-encrypted well may as well just send it without encryption. I think they have all gone to AES DES is old hat but again we are trying to avoid criminal hackers the big boys have the horse power so brute force crack anything just takes a while longer. they got in to an IPhone I guess that Apple is to unsophisticated to know they pay for information so anyone in your company can make some extra cash working for them on the side. another disturbing trent is the H1 visa those foreigners watch learn and take it back, some play for the other team spy informant employee it's all semantics.
Here's what I usually say: You're not that important, Snowflake. Chances are, nothing substantial is ever going to happen to you in your entire, boring life. Stop using Windows operating systems. Your modem is often auto updated by your ISP. The best thing you can do for router/network security is to use strong passwords and enable the best encryption -and never permit remote assistance. For crying out loud, stop using Microsoft if you can manage to. "The actors used VPNFilter malware to target small office and home office routers. The malware is able to perform multiple functions, including possible information collection, device exploitation, and blocking network traffic." Some of the router manufacturers may not even have an update for months. Also, there's no guarantee that your router may be susceptible, or if this "threat" is even legitimate, given the nature of past reports of Russian "hacking" and the DNC, which was carried out by the DNC and not Russian hackers.
f that. My router is a rom based linux box I built from spare parts. The wifi is a completely separate device. It gets bounced only when I push a firmware update. Edit: More detail if anyone cares: A separate host, or in my case a virtual linux machine set up as the router, running off a read only SSD, a DMZ created using a virtual switch, and a Centos firewall, with used Cisco 802.11a access points. One for the house and one for the outbuildings. And no one close enough to get access unless they're in the driveway. A bit painful to build initially but wth - I do this stuff for a living.
If they were really that concerned, they just had to call up the NSA and have them reboot everyone's router, and their internet connected lights, washers and dryers and the fridge. Granted, rebooting the fridge may have caused them to lose their order it was going to place with Amazon .. but oh well.
I got suspicious when the Feds were urging it !!! I think I'll take my chances not doing it . They don't have a very good track record these past few years .
Well, the one thing I am certain of is that "the Russians" aren't hacking people's routers and modems. It doesn't really matter "who" it is if it does pose a real threat -the question is -is this a real threat? I remain skeptical.
I reboot mine often, but, not because the FBI says to do it. It just helps speed things up sometimes. BTW, I'm using Linux, would not even go online with a windoz computer if I had any other option.
commercially available routers are awful they rarely if ever get patched for this specific malware, rebooting an infected device will usually wipe out the layer 2 plus layer 3 infections [ not talking about networking layers ] but the layer 1 infection will remain .. the FBI might be hoping to counter-compromise the infected devices n patch them .. the best thing to do is to build yer own or have one built shameless plug trunk monkey can build custom routers but they aint cheap it does not matter where ya get the parts from, either build it yerselves or get highly trusted plus qualified folks to do it fer ya also some older, but not too old, PCs plus servers can act as routers if ya add some extra parts plus new drives to em .. trunk monkey can help with that too .. way cheaper that way if ya already have most of the parts .. the issue with older PCs plus servers is they will probably be loud, they will take up a lot of space, generate heat plus use a lot of energy, but they will usually be quite fast depending on the hardware specs also dump wifi, because it stinks, jus sayn
that would be us yep yep 100% wired however since Mrs. AoG might shoot ya, WiFi addons are available, but seriously dump WiFi if ya can