Modems/Routers : Add HTTPS when connecting to the NETGEAR Genie page

Netgear...heellloooo!

VPNfilter is a perfect example of a malware snooping the local network for passwords!

Your suggestion of update firmware and change your password SUCKS. Get it together people. Secure our networks from local password snooping your plain text data transfers by:

1. Https available

2. Changing the user name from admin 

3. Change the port used ex.(https://192.168.1.1:5000)

Then basic security is achieved and this malware can NOT read our router passwords.

Come on man! Seriously.

Mr. JeffHWI, you don't understand Badgear idea. You must pay 350+$ to get default function of Chinese OEM.

The R7000P apparently does not support it yet. When I use either the IP or routerlogin.net with https I get:

routerlogin.net refused to connect

Safari and Chrome have the same results.

My memory is that the R7000P does https, but I have now put it back on the shelf. And it was running custom firmware for beta tests.

R7000P work with internal https ?

Netgear has replaced the Nighthawk R7000 with the R7000P.

Nighthawk R7000 is old device ? EOL ?

This is already happening.

Some newer devices already use https. And Netgear has said that it is rolling out the idea to some older devices. (Unfortunately, I can't find the message reporting this.) But don't expect it to make it to EOL stuff.

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for suggesting the HTTPS feature. Your idea will be reviewed for consideration. :]

- Jason N

Another vote for https