[overdog2]

Tripwire Study: 80 Percent of Best-Selling Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) Wireless Routers Have Security Vulnerabilities

http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/2014/2/24/tripwire_study_80_percent_of_best-selling.htm

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30 percent of IT professionals and 46 percent of employees do not change the default administrator password on their wireless routers. With access to the configuration interface, attackers can easily compromise the device.

55 percent of IT professionals and 85 percent of employees do not change the default Internet Protocol (IP) address on their wireless routers, making Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks much easier for cyberattackers.

43 percent of IT professionals and 54 percent of employees use Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) – an insecure standard that makes it simple for attackers to discover a router’s encryption passphrase, regardless of its complexity or strength.

52 percent of IT professionals and 59 percent of employees have not updated the firmware on their routers to the latest version, so even when security updates from router vendors are available, most users do not receive the additional protection

[Paladin2]

So, how well do MAC address restricted WiFi routers do on security?

[Mariner]

Worse, many SmartPhone Carriers will soon disable YOUR ability to disable WiFi on your smartphone.

They'll do this to off load traffic from their cell networks onto free WiFi.

Saves them a buncho bucks.

[GeronL]

Liverpool? Can we call it the Beatles Virus?

[no-to-illegals]

Am saying this in jest everyone ... Once more am saying this in jest ... Should a mutation occur and the computer virus manifests itself into being transmitted between humans, look for human brains to short circuit. Since the virus looks for the weak points of entry, the low information voters are at most risk of brain short circuits and infestations.

[Bryan24]

If the congress had any sense, they would make IT Security one of their top priorities.

[ShadowAce]