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Linksys Velop routers sending credentials in clear to AWS servers

2024-07-10 19:48:19.306718+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers.

According to Testaankoop, the Belgian equivalent of the Consumers’ Association, two types of Linksys routers are sending Wi-Fi login details in plaintext to Amazon (AWS) servers.

Given that we've known that TCP/IP MitM attacks, let alone snooping, are real and occurring and have been happening for a while now, wow does software like this get deployed? What is broken in Linksys's internal processes to let something like this happen?

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