Home routers 'vaccinated' by benign virus
A benevolent virus has been used to harden more than 10,000 home routers against cyber-attacks, says a security firm.
Symantec says the Wifatch program is closing loopholes and fixing bugs on routers it infects.
Routers are being increasingly targeted by criminals keen to steal data or to help with large-scale web attacks.
Symantec has monitored the network of "vaccinated" devices but, so far, has not seen it put to malicious use.
No comments:
Post a Comment