Ubiquiti Promised Premium Secure Routers Then They Were Hacked
Their popularity has encouraged more traditional router companies, like Netgear and Linksys, to follow suit with their own cloud-hosted or app-based options—though they’re still optional in most cases. “The breach only means their data is now in the hands of another party, other than the vendor,” Dong Ngo, editor of Dong Knows Tech and former router reviewer for CNET, said in a direct message on LinkedIn. Ngo thinks mandatory cloud-based accounts are bad news for customer privacy and security, and has frequently cautioned his readers about the problems with cloud-based interfaces....