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Februarys Home and Home Office Security Report covers a number of security issues, including this months "Hot Topic," which describes an attack targeting insecure routers that could allow a hacker to view all the information you type online, including passwords! Recently, researchers have discovered a method that hackers may be able to use to break into your networks through your home wireless or wired router. To take advantage of this issue, a hacker would simply have to entice you to load a Web page that they control. Once loaded, the site would hijack your router and allow the hacker to control the Web sites that you visit. For example, if you type in the Web address of your bank, the hacker could redirect your request to a site that is designed to look like your banks Web site, but is, in fact, controlled by the hacker. Any information that you enter on the hacker-controlled site would be viewable by the hacker, including user names and passwords for online banking, credit card information, and personal identification details.
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