[Cryptography] Will We Ever Learn?

[Aram Perez]

You know by now that Internet of Things devices like your router are often vulnerable to attack, the industry-wide lack of investment in security leaving the door open to a host of abuses. Worse still, known weaknesses and flaws can hang around for years after their initial discovery. Even decades. And Monday, the content and web services firm Akamai published new findings that it has observed attackers actively exploiting a flaw in devices like routers and video game consoles that was originally exposed in 2006.

The rest of the story is here: https://www.wired.com/story/upnp-router-game-console-vulnerabilities-exploited/
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