For anyone who relies on strong Wi-Fi reliability, it's important to keep the firmware on your router updated, either via automatic updates or manually.

And nine of those minutes was remembering how to flash firmware ...

Five out of every six (83%) Wi-Fi routers in US homes and offices leave their users at risk of cyberattacks, because their firmware is inadequately updated for security vulnerabilities, research by ...

This being Computerworld, the number of readers who update the firmware in their router is probably high. But, I suspect very few non-techies keep their firmware current, or even know that the ...

Cisco routers are deployed in networks around the world and play pivotal roles in small networks as well as global wide area networks (WANs). The stability and security built into a Cisco router are ...

As the number of connected devices in our homes and offices continues to multiply, the limitations of many consumer-grade broadband routers become increasingly apparent. Not so long ago, many users ...

In the news has been yet another router botnet. [Hui Wang] and [RootKiter] of 360Netlab announced their discovery of what they call the “BCMUPnP_Hunter” rootkit. They estimate this botnet to be ...

Some users of new Wi-Fi routers from Cisco’s Linksys division complained this week that the company automatically updated the routers’ firmware and pushed them toward a cloud-based administration ...

For years, we have been graced with consumer electronics that run some form of Linux, have a serial port on the circuit board somewhere, and are able to be upgraded through official and unofficial ...

The FCC’s sweeping ban applies to the sale of virtually every new Wi-Fi router. Without regular updates, yours might turn into a pumpkin by 2027.