A total of 226 potential vulnerabilities were found on nine major Wi-Fi routers

IoT Inspector, which provides platforms for IoT security analysis, has a security test for nine Wi-Fi routers from major manufacturers on "Vulnerability IN All Common Wi-Fi Routers Detected" on December 5 (German time).I told the result of going.According to this, a total of 226 security flaws have been found in the tested Wi-Fi router.

The security test was jointly implemented by IoT Inspector and German IT magazine CHIP, and complete reports can be confirmed in the following German article.

ASUS, AVM, D-Link, NetGear, Edimax, TP-Link, Synology, LinkSys are commercially available in Wi-Fi routers, and the number of vulnerabilities discovered by each is figure below.It is summarized in the table.

Dozens of vulnerabilities have been discovered in any Wi-Fi router, pointing out that extremely many users may be affected by these vulnerabilities.

According to reports, one of the frequently discovered issues in this survey is the case where the firmware uses an old Linux kernel.This is thought to be expensive to integrate a new kernel into a firmware.It has been pointed out that the device software used is often old.

In addition, additional services other than routing such as multimedia functions and VPNs tend to remain old.It is often said that there were many problems such as hard coding of qualification information, the use of non -secure communication protocols, and the use of weak default passwords.

The results of this survey have been shared by the manufacturer, and most of the discovered defects have already been revised.The report also mentions the German government's announcement, saying that the manufacturer will be more responsible for damages caused by the vulnerability of IT security.