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Malware Silently Alters Wireless Router Settings
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| A new Trojan horse masquerading as a video "codec" required to view content
| on certain Web sites tries to change key settings on the victim's Internet
| router so that all of the victim's Web traffic is routed through servers
| controlled by the attackers.
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| According to Microsoft, the company's malicious software removal tool zapped
| some 14.3 million instances of Zlob-related malware from customer machines in
| the second half of 2007.
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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/06/malware_silently_alters_wirele_1.html?nav=rss_blog
http://tinyurl.com/4c2j96
So 320,000,000 zombie desktops aren't enough. Now these are being exploited to
devour routers too.
Another reason to keep Windows totally off the network.
Related:
Vyatta Releases Community Edition 2 of Open Source Router
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| Vyatta today announced that Vyatta Community Edition 2 (VC2) is now
| available for download from the Vyatta web site. VC2 is the latest
| freely-available, community-supported release of Vyatta's
| open-source router/firewall product.
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http://www.vyatta.com/about/pressreleases.php?id=28
Open source can have a role in securing networks
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| Increasingly, enterprise and service provider organizations are
| turning to open source tools in the network in place of -- or,
| more often, in addition to -- proprietary commercial technologies
| to deliver more innovative and flexible solutions to unique
| business challenges.
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http://www.bizjournals.com/masshightech/stories/2007/06/04/focus3.html?from_rss=1
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