The Fraunhofer study recognizes safety problems in 127 routers

A recent Fraunhofer study has tested the safety of 127 routers. The experts object to make many weak.

Outdated Linux versions and lack of Updates are the most urgent problems for the security of routers. This conclusion of safety experts from the Fraunhofer Institute for communication, information processing and ergonomics (FKIE ) in your Home Router Security Report 2020. For its investigation, a Team from the Department of “Cyber Analysis & Defense”, a total of 127 Router had studied in private users to use.

In the case of the evaluation of the safety, the researchers examined, among other things, when the last security updates for the Router was provided, which operating system version used and the extent to which critical security gaps relate to this directly. Using specially enwickelter Tools, various Exploits and may be existing non-modifiable pass were also examined words.



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