A new study out by the American Consumer Institute shows that 83 percent of routers in the United States are vulnerable to cyberattacks. The group finds that a majority of those routers have critical security vulnerabilities, primarily due to the lack of firmware updates.
In testing a total of 186 routers from leading manufacturers like Netgear and Linksys, the study found that over 155 were vulnerable to potential cyberattacks. Individually, there were 172 vulnerabilities per router, and 32,003 vulnerabilities in total.
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