Is Your Router in Danger?
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007Cisco announced that 77 of its routers are open to drive-by pharming. What this means is that if a bad link is clicked on, a JavaScript program is launched and, using the default router password, logs in to the router and redirects it to nefarious sites.
Fortunately the fix is easy: change the router’s default password to something that is hard to guess. Do not use passwords like ‘admin’ or leave it blank. These are too easy to guess. If there is doubt, creating a strong password is easy to do. The password change should be done regardless of what router you have.
Doug
