> We are surprised to notice little improvement in the default password protection of Dutch routers. In 2008, the practically exploitable security issue in Spee

> We are surprised to notice little improvement in the default password protection of Dutch routers. In 2008, the practically exploitable security issue in SpeedTouch routers generated some serious media attention in The Netherlands. We had expected that successor and improved routers would be much more secure. However, our study reveals that various modern and massively deployed routers still use weak methods to generate default passwords. Users that did not explicitly changed their wireless password are vulnerable to practical password recovery attacks which enables an adversary to remotely intrude their network within minutes. I guess as long as companies aren't held legally accountable for putting users at risk, they're not going to change anything.