Design of a secure packet processor
Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems
Securing the data path of next-generation router systems
Computer Communications
Computing security in the developing world: a case for multidisciplinary research
NSDR '11 Proceedings of the 5th ACM workshop on Networked systems for developing regions
"Roto-Rooting" your router: solution against new potential DoS attacks on modern routers
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference
High-performance hardware monitors to protect network processors from data plane attacks
Proceedings of the 50th Annual Design Automation Conference
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
Embedded network devices have become an ubiquitous fixture in the modern home, office as well as in the global communication infrastructure. Devices like routers, NAS appliances, home entertainment appliances, wifi access points, web cams, VoIP appliances, print servers and video conferencing units reside on the same networks as our personal computers and enterprise servers and together form our world-wide communication infrastructure. Widely deployed and often misconfigured, they constitute highly attractive targets for exploitation. In this study we present the results of a vulnerability assessment of embedded network devices within the world's largest ISPs and civilian networks, spanning North America, Europe and Asia. The observed data confirms the intuition that these devices are indeed vulnerable to trivial attacks and that such devices can be found throughout the world in large numbers.