NSA Surveillance – Starts with your router

Look at your default router
http://securityevaluators.com//content/case-studies/routers/soho_router_hacks.jsp
We define a critical security vulnerability in a router as one that allows a remote attacker to take full control of the router’s configuration settings, or one that allows a local attacker to bypass authentication and take control. This control allows an attacker to intercept and modify network traffic as it enters and leaves the network.

• All 13 routers evaluated can be taken over from the local network
  • 4 of these attacks require no active management session.
• 11 of 13 routers evaluated can be taken over from the WAN
  • 2 of these attacks require no active management session.

Can you even believe these results?
***Read article at University of Wales, Newport***