Linksys Wireless Router Full of Flaws, Researcher Says2013-04-11 09:31 by DanielaTags: Linksys, security, router, EA2700
A security expert has warned, that the Linksys EA2700 router can expose users to a variety of exploits that allow remote attackers to take full control of the device. According to Phil Purviance, an information security specialist at AppSec Consulting, the most severe of the vulnerabilities in the "classic firmware" for the Linksys EA2700 Network Manager is a cross-site request forgery weakness in the browser-based administration panel.
Then, an attacker could do anything a normal administrator could do, including installing a version of the device firmware that contains a backdoor and changing settings to use malicious domain name lookup servers. A statement issued by officials from Belkin, which recently acquired the Linksys brand, said the vulnerabilities documented by Purviance had been fixed in the Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Firmware that was released in June. Read more -here-
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