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Microsoft’s Recall feature is back. You may remember our coverage of the new AI feature back in June, but for the uninitiated, it was a creepy security trainwreck. The idea …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Recall, BadRAM, and OpenWRT
A security issue that could have allowed attackers to serve malicious firmware images to users has been fixed by OpenWrt Project, the organization that helms the development of the popular Linux distribution for embedded devices. About OpenWrt OpenWrt … Continue reading Update your OpenWrt router! Security issue made supply chain attack possible
OpenWRT is a powerful piece of open-source software that can turn plenty of computers into highly configurable and capable routers. That amount of versatility comes at a cost, though; OpenWRT …read more Continue reading Raspberry Pi Becomes Secure VPN Router
What can you do with a cheap Linux machine with limited flash and only a single free GPIO line? Probably not much, but sometimes, just getting root to prove you …read more Continue reading Getting Root on Cheap WiFi Repeaters, the Long Way Around
Entware is a repo (package manager?) for embedded devices like routers that allows you to run additional Linux tools and services. It seems to be fairly popular and is more or less officially supported and recommended by at least one major… Continue reading How safe is Entware? [closed]
A good amount of hacks can be done with off-the-shelf hardware – what’s more, it’s usually available all over the world, which means your hacks are easier to build for …read more Continue reading A Portable DLNA Server Hack Helps You Tame OpenWRT
I would like to give away an old OpenWrt router. I have done the following.
firstboot -y && reboot
/dev/ubi0_1 is mounted as /overlay, only erasing files
Connection to 192.168.55.12 closed by remote host.
Is this really safe, can … Continue reading Factory reset of OpenWrt router, are my sensitive config files really not recoverable after command "firstboot"?
Once upon a time, about twenty years ago, there was a Linux-based router, the Linksys WRT54G. Back then, the number of useful devices running embedded Linux was rather small, and …read more Continue reading Hardware Should Lead Software, Right?
The OpenWRT project is now two decades old. The project has come a long way since Linksys was forced to release the GNU-licensed code for the original WRT54G router from …read more Continue reading OpenWRT to Mark 20 Years with Reference Hardware
For some of us, unused hardware lying around just calls to be used. It seems like [Miles Goodhew] heard the call, and wanted to put a Dell Wyse 3040 thin …read more Continue reading Thin Client Wysens up to Become OpenWrt Router