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Netgear routers are at risk of getting hacked: What to do
Netgear this week has pushed out a passel of patches for its home networking gear, covering seven modem-router gateways, one range extender and 40-odd routers, including some Nighthawk models and Orb...
"What to do?" is indeed the question. Having both the R7000 and RBR50, I went immediately to the Netgear support pages:
Most recent firmware for R7000 - page was updated Aug, 2019
Most recent firmware for RBR50 - page was updated Dec 2019
No sign of "March 2020 Updates". "Has pushed out" oh, sure.
NG can't even fix their SSL cert that expired last August, that gives me little confidence they have a fix for this, as no March 2020 updates are available on their site yet.
From the Threatpost.com website three days ago:
Netgear is urging customers to visit its online support page and search by device model for the most recent firmware to update and patch their devices.
OK Netgear, where are you hiding the updates?
I think the moderators will enjoy asking the "powers that be" what the h**l they were thinking to announce something that can so easily be shown to be false. Dustin_V
The worst thing about this is when Netgear announced exactly what these vulnerabilities are and to which models, the hackers now know exactly what to do. They don't have to test and try different hacks -- Netgear has left us like sitting ducks just waiting to be hacked.
Netgear could you please post the firmware updates?