In a story published by Naked Security, read about how WiFi internet routers might be able to cause security breaches for corporate offices.
“Stories of a vulnerability in Linksys consumer routers – the sort of device you might have at home between your family network and your ADSL modem, for example – have been circulating in the past week.
‘Cisco Linksys is a very popular router with more than 70,000,000 routers sold. That’s why we think that this vulnerability deserves attention,’ and to point out that it would widely disclose the vulnerability in the next two weeks, ‘according to our vulnerability disclosure policy.’
Anyone who can plug a LAN cable into the back of your router already has physical access to it, so they can get a root shell anyway, albeit that it might be more obvious that they’re trying.”
To read the full story, click here.
Unsafe Router?
We question anything traveling through the air such as router radio frequency, to be completely safe as some manufactures claim. For stronger security measures, we recommend:
- using a strong WPA password,
- chose friend contacts wisely,
- keep your eye on vulnerability disclosure updates, and
- schedule regular TSCM Sweeps with Wi-Fi Analysis as we do for our clients.
In past years of our company conducting sweep audits nationally, we are observing the ever increasing vulnerability of Wi-Fi within the corporate office structure.
Corporate Executive Security experts are aware of this being a possible situation for compromise of their trade secrets, and that is why they call on us for a complete thorough sweep of their office environment. Our work doesn’t end after the sweep results are made known. Through our continuing education and briefings, we provide on-going TSCM support to our Corporate Security Executives to keep their trade secrets secret.
