12 Million Home Routers Vulnerable to Takeover

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Monday, December 22nd, 2014
12 Million Home Routers Vulnerable to Takeover
More than 12 million devices running an embedded webserver called RomPager are vulnerable to a simple attack that could give a hacker man-in-the-middle position on traffic going to and from home routers from just about every leading manufacturer.

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