The Wall St Journal ran a cover story yesterday claiming that many of our routers, those little $50 boxes that allow more than one computer to use a single internet modem, have unfixed security bugs in their firmware. Bug that allow hackers to get into your computer, suck everything off the hard drive, get all your passwords, and turn your machine into a zombie that follows secret orders from bot net masters.
Me, I didn't even realize that I could update or patch the code running in my router. Things to do, dig into the closet under the stairs where my router is stashed, find the model number of my router, and Google for software updates. And figure out how to insert said software update into the router.
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