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More than a million Netgear routers are at risk

Daniel Morial February 2, 2017 · 1 min read

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Do you own a Netgear router in your home or office? You should upgrade its firmware ASAP as Netgear acknowledges the vulnerability.

A reported by cybersecurity firm Trustwave, Netgear routers have a severe security hole that allows attackers to exploit its password recovery system and turn the routers into botnets. The bug lets anyone enter 31 different Netgear models. What’s alarming is it can even be done remotely, if the remote management option is switched on.

The following are the affected models:

R8500
R8300
R7000
R6400
R7300DST
R7100LG
R6300v2
WNDR3400v3
WNR3500Lv2
R6250
R6700
R6900
R8000
R7900
WNDR4500v2
R6200v2
WNDR3400v2
D6220
D6400
C6300 (firmware released to ISPs)

If you own a model that’s listed above, head over here to select the necessary firmware update.

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Daniel Morial

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This article was contributed by Daniel Morial, a film school graduate and technology enthusiast. He's the geeky encyclopedia and salesman among his friends for anything tech.

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