The device that connects us to the Internet is dangerously vulnerable, security experts say. And while there are some signs of impending improvements, not much has happened in the past several years, while the threats have grown
It is generally accepted in IT that the weakest link in the security chain is the fallible and frequently careless human.
But a close second, many experts say, is the router – the device that connects people to the Web, sometimes called “the backbone of the Internet” – which is dangerously vulnerable to skilled hackers.
Those experts have been issuing alarms for some time, but they say that, so far, things have not changed much.
