Millions Of Home Routers Vulnerable To Web Hack

Some guy says he plans to release a software tool at the upcoming Black Hat security conference that will allow hackers to take control of millions of home routers.

Heffner's attack is a variation on a technique known as "DNS rebinding," a trick that's been discussed for close to 15 years. "There have been plenty of patches over the years, but this still hasn't really been fixed," he says. The hack exploits an element of the Domain Name System, or DNS, the Internet's method of converting Web page names into IP address numbers.

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