Thursday, April 19, 2007

Software that runs home routers, cell phones and personal digital assistants is rife with security bugs

clipped from news.zdnet.com
VANCOUVER, B.C.--Software that runs home routers, cell phones and personal digital assistants is rife with security bugs, an expert said Thursday.


Barnaby Jack, a Juniper Networks security researcher, gave a tutorial at the CanSecWest conference here on how bug hunters can find exploitable vulnerabilities in such devices and demonstrated an attack on a D-Link router using a yet-to-be-patched hole.

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