Router pharming: your bank account is an open book
Popular models of routers from Netgear, D-Link, Linksys were found by Symantec to be vulnerable to drive-by pharming attacks, and now Cisco has admitted many of their routers are vulnerable, too. While protecting yourself is still easy today, cyber attacks are only on the increase, so be prepared! Drive-by pharming, where your computer is ‘infected’ with a Javascript program that tries to log into your router using a range of default passwords and change your DNS settings so you can be pointed to rogue websites without your knowledge, such as what looks like an exact copy of your online bank, is something that will soon be just one of the many standard tools in an online criminal’s arsenal of tools. He’ll use them to subvert your computer, gain access to your information and enlist your computer as the latest addition an underground ‘botnet’ army of computers responsible for sending out spam, spyware and participating in denial of service attacks to take down websites, as has happened with Yahoo, AOL and others in the past.
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