D-Link Fixing Backdoor Found In Home Routers

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D-Link says it is working hard to fix that "easy-to-exploit" backdoor found in seven of the company's routers. So far, there are no reports of the backdoor being exploited.

The backdoor, if used, would let an attacker take complete control of a router or modem and spy on a home's browsing activity. D-Link has acknowledged the existence of the backdoor and said a fix would be available by the end of October.
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Yet another reason to flash DD-WRT as soon as you take it out of the box.
 
DD-WRT will whip the lama's ass!

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Network Interface (Modem) -> Raspberry Pi router open source -> Home Router -> Computer
 
DIR-655 isn't on the list, so no worries.

Mine works fine, N-band speed, gigabit ports, I'm happy at the price point (when I got it) no need to do shit to it.
 
MrPatate said:
But DD-WRT doesn't work on most of their product sadly. My DIR-655 would be otherwise flashed.
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Unfortunately this is the main pet peeve I have with it. It mostly works on Linksys routers, but past that it's a hit or miss. There seems to be nearly no effort to expand router support from the developers behind it.

There are other choices like HyperWRT, OpenWRT, and Tomato. Nearly all of them are as good or better then DD-WRT. Believe me, DD-WRT has a lot of contraversy about it's GPL. But DD-WRT is the go to firmware.

It's probably too late to say this but it's better to do the research to make sure the router is supported. Unfortunately for myself I have Verizon and "have" to use their router. I don't like losing coaxial support.
 
Ashbringer said:
Unfortunately this is the main pet peeve I have with it. It mostly works on Linksys routers, but past that it's a hit or miss. There seems to be nearly no effort to expand router support from the developers behind it.

There are other choices like HyperWRT, OpenWRT, and Tomato. Nearly all of them are as good or better then DD-WRT. Believe me, DD-WRT has a lot of contraversy about it's GPL. But DD-WRT is the go to firmware.

It's probably too late to say this but it's better to do the research to make sure the router is supported. Unfortunately for myself I have Verizon and "have" to use their router. I don't like losing coaxial support.
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+1 on the Tomato or OpenWRT.

DD-WRT is old, slow, and very limited compared to some of the other options.
 
DD-WRT is older.. But farm from outdated.. It works on almost every router.
 
mikrotik! now days I see lots of prosumer or whatever you call it options no need to be harnessed to the crap ware the big companies shovel out. Think about it from a conflict of interest stand point, if cisco makes Linksys good it eats into their cisco brand. Same with most of those players. I have used routers from Linksys, dlink and netgear and all of them were unstable, had bugs, required resets. I have been running for over a year now on a mikrotik / unifi and never needed any of that, maybe its just anecdotal but whatever I like it. I spent big money on junk like the dlink gamer routers too.
 
All the reason to switch, I had a 655 that was working intermittent and had 12 devices connected sometimes all at once.
I didn't want to deal with the BS anymore so I jumped ship, got an Asus AC66R router, during easter (BB sale for 129) and havent looked back!
 
TheGamerZ said:
Yet another reason to flash DD-WRT as soon as you take it out of the box.
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That's has had root exploits and wi-fi exploits too. Open software is not always more secure. They both depend on someone finding the problem and not sitting on the info or sell it to others.
 
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