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A large majority of Wi-Fi routers in U.S. homes and offices are vulnerable to cyberattacks because their firmware isn’t updated frequently enough, according to a new study by the nonprofit American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research. About 83 percent of routers are “inadequately updated for known security flaws, leaving connected devices open to cyber attacks that can compromise consumer privacy and lead to financial loss,” the report says. Among the risks include information theft and attacks that commandeer internet of things (IoT) devices for botnets. The study was completed in response to an FBI warning in May about Russian hackers compromising hundreds of thousands of home and office routers. To protect the public from potential risks, the FBI warned users to turn routers off and on again and to download firmware updates. Much of the problem stems from the fact that companies often base their IoT firmware — the software that provides low-level control for a […]
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