[sf-lug] crackers may target routers, here are some defence ideas such as OpenWRT

[jim]

     Here's a link to an article that claims
that world-wide crackers may be targetting
our routers because the routers are frail
from a security standpoint.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2971270/security/your-router-gateway-for-hackers.html?phint=newt%3Dnetworkworld_network_optimization_alert&phint=idg_eid%3D9acc943f8448d8c96fc5b38178c536aa#tk.NWWNLE_nlt_network_optimization_2015-08-18 


     Set a long, complex password, turn off
uPnP and any other unneeded features, and--
most effective of all--re-fire the firmware
with OpenWRT.
     We discussed this last night in the
SF-LUG meeting, and Bobbie found these
links to the Buffalo router products,
which use OpenWRT.


     Here is the URL to the Amazon Web page.
<http://www.amazon.com/BUFFALO-AirStation-Simultaneous-Wireless-WZR-1750DHP/dp/B00D69747O>

     Here are two pages for the rest of the information about the free 
router firmware and what works with it.
<https://www.dd-wrt.com/site/support/router-database>

<http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices>

     The Buffalo main page.
<http://www.buffalotech.com/products>

Thanks, Bobbie!


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