By now, you may be tired of hearing about all of the flaws that stock router firmware has. Well, once again it has been discovered that Netgear firmware allows attackers to snoop on private internet use. This is why it is so important to make sure you’re using a router with DD-WRT open-source firmware on it, like the ones we offer at FlashRouters.
The flaw this time allows users on a local network to overflow the character limit in the UPnP protocol and give the attacker full control of the network. While many routers running stock firmware can be patched, there are still 40 older models that are not supported anymore and cannot be fixed.
