"Hacking [redacted] Routers" was the title of a lecture at Defcon by security expert Felix Lindner (also known as FX) and Gregor Kopf of the Berlin-based Recurity Labs. The "censored" routers were quickly established as being the AR18 and AR28 routers from the Chinese manufacturer Huawei. . The two hackers have been looking at the firmware, default settings, and overall security of the routers and have concluded that just about everything you can do wrong, Huawei has done wrong. The link for this article located at H Security is no longer available. . Defcon researchers revealed serious vulnerabilities in Huawei routers, focusing on their firmware and settings, stressing the urgency for security updates and configurations. Huawei Routers, Network Safety, Cybersecurity Risks. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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