ASUS routers not configured to automatically install updates still automatically download updates for some security definitions file used by the router
And thus it can be shut down remotely. The router has to check regularly for updates to this security definition, which is the point they'd insert the shutdown.
> ASUS routers not configured to automatically install updates still automatically download updates for some security definitions file used by the router
And thus it can be shut down remotely. The router has to check regularly for updates to this security definition, which is the point they'd insert the shutdown.
They wouldn’t need to be that clever. With the default firmware these things are a black box. They might have something else that it remotely downloads that can simply run arbitrary code. We wouldn’t know it.
They wouldn’t need to be that clever. With the default firmware these things are a black box. They might have something else that it remotely downloads that can simply run arbitrary code. We wouldn’t know it.
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