NSA Warned Everyone to Reboot Their Routers

throawayonthe

links to this NSA press release dated April 7th https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Pre...

burnt-resistor

In this day and age, and we still lack formally-proven, FOSS/FOSHW, minimal consumer edge routers and WiFi APs.

nubinetwork

"Replace outdated routers" yeah good luck with that, they're all banned.

Surac

so NSA installed a backdoor to each router and now needs you to restart it to open the backdoor?

goolz

Similar vibes to a single, older, creepy gentleman telling a group of young school children at the park not to talk to strangers.

Craighead

Reminder, HN, you all live in the real world. Chinese state sponsored cyber threat actors use orb networks that are primarily made via strung together off the shelf routers. The literal companies that build and maintain these ORB networks also resell this capability to Russian military intelligence and cyber threat actors.

cmehdy

TP-link routers. Entirely unsurprising.

rayiner

I wonder what the prevalence of these IoT devices is doing to internet security. Your router firewall might prevent incoming connections, but these stupid devices are always dialing out to god knows where. Can that be used to compromise security? I recently installed deep packet inspection in my firewall and it’s quite illuminating to see all of what’s going on. Why are devices in my home connecting to India?