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Netgear has patched serious security vulnerabilities in its DGN2200v1 network router, following the discovery of "very odd behaviour" by a Microsoft security research team - a somewhat understated way of saying that attackers can gain "complete control over the router."

US-based networking company Netgear is exploring manufacturing opportunities in India and will start manufacturing its products by 2020, said its CEO Patrick Lo. The decision to shift its manufacturing hub from China is in the light of on-going US-China trade war. Netgear manufactures networking hardware such as routers for business enterprises and high-end consumers segment. For the $1.1 billion company, B2B businesses account for about $300 million and the rest comes from consumer business. "We are looking at opportunities to see whether we would be able to harness some of the manufacturing sites in India to shift our manufacturing capacities...

A security researcher in the US has said his Netgear router was hacked after attackers exploited a flaw in the machine. Joe Giron told the BBC that he discovered altered admin settings on his personal router on 28 September. The compromised router was hacked to send web browsing data to a malicious internet address. Netgear says the vulnerability is "serious" but affects fewer than 5,000 devices. Mr Giron found that the Domain Name System (DNS) settings on his router had been changed to a suspicious IP address. "Normally I set mine to Google's [IP address] and it wasn't that, it...