Your home network’s security is only as good as the configuration of your router or gateway. Leave it open or vulnerable, and you might end up with freeloaders that hog your bandwidth, at best. At ...

A flaw in Netgear wireless routers allows attackers to bypass administrator authentication and potentially gain full access to the devices, a researcher has discovered. Network engineer Peter Adkins ...

IBM X-Force warns that router passwords must be changed. Update, Jan. 5, 2025: This story, originally published Jan. 4, now includes a user guide explaining how to change your router admin credentials ...

Update, Oct. 02, 2024: This story, originally published Sept. 30, now includes new research regarding 14 new router vulnerabilities, including a ten out of ten severity issue. If you are reading this, ...

I've got a Cisco/Linksys WRT54G2 with the latest firmware. If I connect to the Admin site, either over Ethernet or Wireless, the pages on the site are painfully slow to load. Often it'll take a minute ...

I'm stumped. I've reset the router multiple times, unplugged everything (computer, modem, router) and started it back up, and I still can't get to the setup page for 192.168.1.1. I've verified that ...

Like our other devices, routers have software that occasionally needs updates as well to offer improved security and compatibility, and even provide new features for users. To do this, the router ...

A particular TP-Link router model will spew out its admin password in cleatext to anyone that sends an SMS message to the router's SIM card with a particular script inside, according to German ...

A brash IT pro lands a job as a senior network admin, but soon his errors cause problems for the top execs Not that long ago in an enterprise not very far away, I had the displeasure of working with ...