In recent months, a number of serious security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Linksys routers ASUS and popular performing enforcement actions underway firmware provided by the manufacturer. Our staff here at TorGuard would explain how these bugs can compromise the entire network and how upgrading a Tomato DDWRT or VPN router can provide nearly foolproof security "red firmware disappeared."
the first example came to light this weekend after a user reported to arstechnica.com when you browse the contents of an external hard drive of a very mysterious and confusing file was found. the file warned that its entire network and the files have been compromised by ASUS critical flaw firmware:
"This is an automated message sent to everyone effected [sic]," the message, downloaded on their device without login details, read. "your Asus router (and documents) can be viewed by anyone in the world with an Internet connection. You must protect yourself and learn more by reading the following article new: http://nullfluid.com/asusgate.txt."
It is safe to assume that he did not was the only person who received this warning, and this is not the first fault that ASUS was discovered. There are a few weeks, an unknown group published a list of 13,000 users running firmware ASUS stocks that are victims . a similar security hole looking back even further, a security researcher by the name of Kyle Lovett published its findings massive emissions of heavy stock firmware ASUS routers security: RT-AC66R, RT-AC66U, RT N66R, RT-N66U RT-AC56U, -N56R RT, RT-N56U RT-N14U RT-N16 and RT-N16R.
ASUS is not alone in this new series of results vulnerability security. the D-LINK manufacturers, Netgear and Linksys have all had their share of similar and repeated problems with a wide range of routers as the N0 (Netgear) and E1000, E10 and E2400 (Linksys).
Hardware manufacturers are quick to sweep issues like this under the carpet and free firmware updates, but is it really solve the problem at hand? Many researchers like Lovett argued that there is a large number of routers that continue to operate without receiving an update. With new bugs being discovered with such frequency, it becomes difficult for the average person to stay informed and keep an updated router.
Stay safe with DDWRT & Tomato Firmware
at this point you may be wondering why TorGuard still sell Linksys routers, Netgear VPN and ASUS even after all these security flaws have been discovered? The reasoning is simple: TorGuard flashes all routers with the latest versions of firmware and DDWRT tomatoes, erasing previously installed firmware available manufacturer. Users running these flashed or "improved" DDWRT tomatoes and VPN routers are not effected by these latest security vulnerabilities. Not to mention, they sleep much better at night.
DDWRT firmware and tomatoes are open source and highly tested firmware solutions that come under the control of the entire networking community. With so many different people constantly review and update the same code base, it would be virtually impossible for a massive security hole accidentally be included in a statement. Compare this record of consistent security to the series of recent hacks in stock ASUS, Linksys and Netgear firmware and it becomes clear why so many people choose DDWRT or tomato.
All TorGuard VPN routers come shipped by-flashed with DDWRT or tomato and pre-configured with the OpenVPN Service so the configuration is virtually plug and play! Each router comes with free technical support remotely, without additional cost. Caisse most popular VPN Router 2014: the Netgear R6300, Linksys E40, Buffalo WZR-0DHP RT-N66U and ASUS
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