Security expert Craig Heffner from Seismic, a company
specializing in security consulting, will be sharing the details
of a security flaw that opens up many common household routers
to a hack. The revelation will be part of the Black Hat
Conference in Las Vegas at the end of the month. Black Hat is a
gathering of technologists who are interested in security
issues, some from the corporate world and some from the darker
side of the issue. Heffner’s talk is entitled How to Hack
Millions of Routers.â€ According to Forbes, Heffner will release
code that can be used to get into popular routers from Linksys,
Dell, and Verizon FIOS or DSL. If a user visits a web site with
the code, malicious hosts can gain access to information or send
a browser to another site. The way the hack works is extremely
technical. If you want all the details check out the Forbes blog
post. Simply put, it exploits the way Domain Name Systems (DNS)
work. The DNS address is kind of like a web page’s phone number.
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