Re:Over 65,000 Home Routers Are Proxying Bad Traffic for Bot...
by mondoshawan on Monday April 16, 2018 @11:47AM
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Surprised to see Ubiquiti on that list. Thankfully, the EdgeRouter series doesn't show up there!
Still, I'll be blocking port 1900 and focusing more on defense in depth on my home net...
The irony is that back when I was a teenager adminning our home routers, I'd always disable UPnP simply because of what it is -- at the time it stood to reason that any consumer POS device could bypass the firewall with it and do horrible things from the inside out. Nowadays I've become a bit lazy because I think I'm pretty fatigued at fighting this kind of junk.
Still, I'll be blocking port 1900 and focusing more on defense in depth on my home net...
The irony is that back when I was a teenager adminning our home routers, I'd always disable UPnP simply because of what it is -- at the time it stood to reason that any consumer POS device could bypass the firewall with it and do horrible things from the inside out. Nowadays I've become a bit lazy because I think I'm pretty fatigued at fighting this kind of junk.