Your old Linksys WRT54G router? You can make a robotic lawnmower out of that thing. The ability to modify the firmware of consumer electronics is the cornerstone of Hackaday’s editorial prerogative.

The router’s firmware was using some previously unknown form of obfuscation, causing headaches for those wishing to run their own software. The WRT120N, being a 2009 model is somewhat out of ...

Security researchers have confirmed that an ongoing DDoS attack is using zero-day vulnerabilities in routers—what you need to ...

Open source Wi-Fi router project OpenWrt and the Software Freedom Conservancy have delivered their first jointly developed hardware platform – the OpenWrt One – and are trumpeting it as a ...

A 13,000-router MikroTik botnet bypasses SPF protections on 20,000 domains, fueling malware, DDoS, and phishing.

A recently closed lawsuit in Germany is the latest in a long-running trend of hardware makers using GPL source code, but not ...

The threat actor, known as BlackTech, has “compromised several Cisco routers using variations of a customized firmware backdoor,” the agencies said in the advisory. The hackers have been known ...

An unidentified attacker has been confirmed as effectively bricking more than 600,000 routers from a single internet service provider through a malicious firmware update. Customers have reported ...