I use DD-wrt on my linksys, according to the article and the forums at dd-wrt.com, this software IS potentially vulnerable.
Bottom line though is that if you have a good router password, you should be OK.
Good call, Shadow! I’ve been a DD-WRT adherent since their inception. I love their firmware on my Linksys router, and it works exceptionally well on the old NetGear wireless router my old ISP gave me (after some minor hardware tweaks).
The login settings being left as-is boggles my mind. I was in the mountains of N. Georgia recently and could get into three different routers with just admin/admin or root/user. Some folks just set the SSID and forget about any other security.
SA, You’re one of the brightest Freepers in tech so here’s a question...
I bring my laptop to work (Dell 2009 XP SP 3 iNSPIRON) and I point the mouse to the bars of the wifi and gives me the ‘address’ as 192.168.1.74.
Obviously under whatismyipaddress.com, it;s a different #...
Now I bring it home, point the mouse at the bars and it gives me the same “address’ 192.168.1.74,but my ip address is obviously different from the office..
Is this normal?