Router setup/defense: Phase 2  


"... Consider the analogy of the elephant and the ant. The elephant is massive - the ant is miniscule, but the elephant is one, and the ants are millions. A swarm of ants can overwhelm anything if they put their minds to it, even the elephant. Now replace "elephant" with "Google" and "malicious web sites" with "ants"...
The innocent days of the Internet as a wondrous, safe place that all can visit, and learn, and teach and share and explore without fear are gone. The criminals have taken that dream away from us. That is the reality..." • MS MVP Sandi Hardmeier - 2007: http://preview.tinyurl.com/2xsfoz
 • Google Internet Backbone: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=AS:15169
- http://www.cnet.com/8301-13554_1-9889160-33.html?tag=more
 "... Every router, wired or wireless, has an internal website used to make configuration changes. Accessing this internal website requires a userid/password, something totally independent of any wireless network passwords... In brief, if your router is using the default password, your computer is vulnerable to an attack where the router is re-configured. Specifically, the dangerous configuration option is the DNS server... Malicious DNS servers can result in your visiting to a website, any website, and ending up at a phony version of the site run by bad guys. If the website is that of a bank or credit card company, and you enter a userid/password, you can kiss your identity, and money, good-bye..."

-3- Common home router vendors (password change info):

* Linksys      * D-Link      * NetGear
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Issues with DNS? Go here: http://208.69.38.205/ || If you're already inside your router, check this out, too: