Building botnets made up of routers, modems, wireless access points and other networking devices doesn’t require sophisticated exploits. Remaiten, a new worm that ...

A Brazilian ISP appears to have deployed routers without a Telnet password for nearly 5,000 customers, leaving the devices wide open to abuse. The devices have been discovered this week by Ankit ...

Device owners should use one of the many free online port scanning tools to check if their router has port 23 open and should try to shut down the Telnet service from the device’s Web-based ...

The Taiwanese IT authority, Taiwan Computer Emergency Response Team/Coordination Center (TCERT/CC), has identified a vulnerability in D-Link routers that allows unauthorized access via a Telnet ...

What do you mean "What cable?"<BR>If you are telnetting into it, you just go over the network and Telnet to the given IP of the router.<P>However, you need a rollover cable to use the console port and ...

For some reason my Cisco 2600 router sometimes refuses telnet connections. It becomes a real problem when I want to get in to change anything. <BR><BR>I can fix it by power cycling it, but I was ...

Telnet credentials covering more than 515,000 devices, including routers and IoT devices have been published online by an anonymous hacker. The list was put together from a basic internet scan for ...

The Internet of Things is creating serious new security risks. We examine the possibilities and the dangers. Read now A newly discovered botnet contains code that can wipe all data from infected ...

Fundamentals: Five ways to secure your Cisco routers and switches Your email has been sent David Davis describes the fundamentals of router security through a list of his top five best practices. He ...