@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year agoDOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businessesarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1428cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1428external-linkDOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businessesarstechnica.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year agomessage-square49fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish38•1 year agoImportant detail left out of the TL;DR: The method of infection required that the device still had the default admin password. As long as you changed the admin password when you setup the device this wouldn’t have impacted you.
minus-squareBatmanlinkfedilinkEnglish9•edit-21 year agoThanks for this important information. That is the 1st thing we do after getting a new Router. (change its username and password)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish15•1 year agoIt’s incredible how many people leave their router with the default password
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish17•1 year agoI’m smart, I never leave the default password. I always change it to 1 2 3 4 5, the same as my luggage.
Important detail left out of the TL;DR: The method of infection required that the device still had the default admin password. As long as you changed the admin password when you setup the device this wouldn’t have impacted you.
Thanks for this important information. That is the 1st thing we do after getting a new Router. (change its username and password)
It’s incredible how many people leave their router with the default password
I’m smart, I never leave the default password.
I always change it to 1 2 3 4 5, the same as my luggage.