Major home gateway flaw tells us it’s time for hardware-level security
May 25, 2015 1 Comment
This week, security researchers found a major vulnerability affecting scores of home and SOHO Wi-Fi router products from over 20 of the biggest names in the market. That such a widespread flaw could go unnoticed and that it went unpatched for so long despite the researchers’ best efforts is a sad reflection on the commercially minded “sales first, security second” attitude of the technology industry and of the gaping holes that exist in the supply chain.
But it also raises questions about whether, instead of focusing on security at the software and network level, we should instead start looking down to build protections into the silicon in order to reduce the attack surface area.
