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Wi-Fi 7 home mesh routers poised to hit 33Gbps

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty) It’s looking increasingly likely that Wi-Fi 7 will be an option next year. This week, Qualcomm joined the list of chipmakers detailing Wi fi 7 products they expect to be available to homes and businesses soon. The Wifi Alliance, which makes Wi-Fi standards and includes Qualcomm as a member, […]

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Gear from Netgear, Linksys, and 200 others has unpatched DNS poisoning flaw

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hardware and software makers are scrambling to determine if their wares suffer from a critical vulnerability recently discovered in third-party code libraries used by hundreds of vendors, including Netgear, Linksys, Axis, and the Gentoo embedded Linux distribution. The flaw makes it possible for hackers with access to the connection between an […]

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300, 000 MikroTik routers are ticking security time bombs, researchers say

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) As many as 300, 000 routers made by Latvia-based MikroTik are vulnerable to remote attacks that can surreptitiously corral the devices into botnets that steal sensitive user data and participate in Internet-crippling DDoS attacks, researchers said. The estimate, made by researchers at security firm Eclypsium, is based on Internet-wide scans that […]

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Home and office Routers come under attack by China state hackers, France warns

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) China state hackers are compromising large numbers of home and office routers for use in a vast and ongoing attack against organizations in France, authorities from that county said. The hacking group—known in security circles as APT31, Zirconium, Panda, and other names—has historically conducted espionage campaigns targeting government, financial, aerospace and […]

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Ubiquiti breach puts countless cloud-based devices at risk of takeover

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Network devices-maker Ubiquiti has been covering up the severity of a data breach that puts customers’ hardware at risk of unauthorized access, KrebsOnSecurity has reported, citing an unnamed whistleblower inside the company. In January, the maker of routers, Internet-connected cameras, and other networked devices, disclosed what it said was “unauthorized access […]