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Further to the Newsdesk article about Linux malware in LXF287, which finished with “Implementing routerlevel security to help protect any device... is also worth investing in”, I wonder whether an article about the main things to check/configure would be worthwhile? Many of us tend to lose interest, or at least get distracted by other things, after the relief of getting a new router working, and perhaps don’t pay enough attention to security aspects.
Steve Holmes
Neil says…
It can’t be a good sign when I think “we wrote what?” This is a good point though, as there are novel networking configurations that can help compartmentalise networks and bolster security. I was hoping to get someone to look at OpenWrt (https:// openwrt.org) that could perhaps be the basis of a network feature, as otherwise every other router differs so much in configuration and features.