Millions of switches, routers and firewalls are potentially vulnerable to hijacking and interception, after American security firm Rapid7 discovered a serious issue with how these devices are configured. The problem – which affects both home and business users – is found in the NAT-PMP settings used to allow external networks to communicate with devices operating on a local network. In a vulnerability advisory, Rapid7 found 1.2 million devices that suffer from misconfigured NAT-PMP settings, with 2.5% vulnerable to an attacker intercepting internal traffic, 88% to an attacker intercepting outbound traffic, and 88% to a denial of service attack as a...
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1.2 Million Routers Are Vulnerable To Being Hijacked. Is Yours One Of Them?
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