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ASUS warns of critical remote authentication bypass on 7 routers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Friendly reminder that OpenWrt exists, and is probably safer than the stock firmware in any consumer router.

From a quick look, I see that at least one of the affected models has official OpenWrt support: the RT-AC68U

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Another friendly reminder, enterprise-grade routers like Mikrotik are fantastic. They don't have wifi builtin, so you may never need to upgrade it if you get fast enough uplink (mine is gigabit, so should be fine). You'll need a separate AP (I got Ubiquiti). They're way more feature complete than nonsense like these from ASUS, and they generally have more secure firmware.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I thought OpenWRT doesn't support modems due to licencing issues.
So, I guess you would need a separate modem, or ISP router in bridge mode, or double NAT with OpenWRT being DMZ

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

If you are willing to spend a bit more upfront, I bought a mini PC in 2017 and installed opnsense on it. It's still rock solid. For wifi, I use a separate ap (a ubiquity UAP that I bought in 2015) and it is also going strong. Almost a decade of rock solid performance easily beats out any other router I've owned in terms of both performance and cost.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I can only get merlin on my rt-ax86u pro. Only aimesh for me!