Is enabling software flow-offloading in OpenWRT’s firewall settings dangerous?

First of all, I did ask this on OpenWrt Forums already, I thought maybe someone here knows this.
I noticed that my internet speed gets limited when this feature is not enabled, this feature is also marked as experimental, any clue what it … Continue reading Is enabling software flow-offloading in OpenWRT’s firewall settings dangerous?

Is enabling software flow-offloading in OpenWRT’s firewall settings dangerous?

First of all, I did ask this on OpenWrt Forums already, I thought maybe someone here knows this.
I noticed that my internet speed gets limited when this feature is not enabled, this feature is also marked as experimental, any clue what it … Continue reading Is enabling software flow-offloading in OpenWRT’s firewall settings dangerous?

This Week in Security: Ghoscript in Imagemagick, Solarwinds, and DHCP Shenanigans

A PoC was just published for a potentially serious flaw in the Ghostscript interpreter. Ghostscript can load Postscript, PDF, and SVG, and it has a feature from Postscript that has …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Ghoscript in Imagemagick, Solarwinds, and DHCP Shenanigans

Dnsmasq vulnerabilities open networking devices, Linux distros to DNS cache poisoning

Seven vulnerabilities affecting Dnsmasq, a caching DNS and DHCP server used in a variety of networking devices and Linux distributions, could be leveraged to mount DNS cache poisoning attack and/or to compromise vulnerable devices. “Some of the b… Continue reading Dnsmasq vulnerabilities open networking devices, Linux distros to DNS cache poisoning

Teardown: Creality Wi-Fi Box

Creality, makers of the Ender series of 3D printers, have released a product called Wi-Fi Box meant to control printers over a network and I ordered one for today’s teardown. Let’s get something very clear from the start. If you’re looking to control your 3D printer over the network, get …read more

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Stop Bad Laws Before They Start

With everything else going on this summer, you might be forgiven for not keeping abreast of new proposed regulatory frameworks, but if you’re interested in software-defined radio (SDR) or even reflashing your WiFi router, you should. Right now, there’s a proposal to essentially prevent you from flashing your own firmware/software …read more

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Millions of routers running OpenWRT vulnerable to attack

A vulnerability (CVE-2020-7982) discovered in the package manager of the OpenWRT open source operating system could allow attackers to compromise the embedded and networking devices running it. About OpenWRT OpenWRT is an open source, Linux-based opera… Continue reading Millions of routers running OpenWRT vulnerable to attack