Avast: Many routers are unsafe

prague - Czech security company Avast warns of the vulnerability of routers. The company claimed last month 132 million unique scans and concluded that 22 percent of the routers was vulnerable to attackers. In some cases, there was an error in the software, in other cases it was the password was too weak or never changed.

Avast indicates that a router can often over think users, in addition, more and more devices connected. Routers are according to the company often targeted by the same attack other IoT devices. At the Mobile World Congress Avast therefore presented new software for routers that has been named Chime. That software should provide an extra layer of protection.