'No router without flaws', finds damning study of security in routers

Routers, those things helping us stay sane during the lockdown, are riddled with flaws due to manufacturers neglecting the security of the devices. — Franziska Gabbert/dpa

You plug them in once, they work and then you forget about them until the Internet stops working.

But routers, the gateway to the outside world and those things helping us stay sane during the lockdown, are riddled with flaws due to manufacturers neglecting the security of the devices, sometimes to an alarming degree, according to a new study.