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I checked my router's open ports and what I found was terrifying

I scanned my router and didn’t like what I saw.
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Post-WannaCry, 5.5 Million Devices Still Expose SMB Port

In its annual National Exposure Index report, Rapid7 found 160 million computers, IoT devices and servers with open ports that should not be exposed to the public network. If you thought WannaCry ...
ZDNet

Hackers are opening SMB ports on routers so they can infect PCs with NSA malware

Akamai has detected an ingenious malware campaign that alters configurations on home and small office routers to open connections toward internal networks so crooks can infect previously isolated ...
Healthcare IT News

Warning: Millions of devices are still vulnerable to WannaCry

A new Rapid7 National Exposure Index found that 160 million computers, servers and IoT devices have open ports not meant to be exposed on public networks. And when it came to the file-sharing SMB port ...
EDN

Qualcomm Atheros Expands Networking Infrastructure Portfolio with the Industry’s First SMB Unified High Port-Count Gigabit Ethernet Switch Family

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Atheros, Inc., launched the QCA871x series of high port-count Gigabit ...
Ars Technica

Is it still a bad idea to run SMB over the internet?

Conventional wisdom seems to be that SMB, even in its over TCP variant over port 445, is only to be used over the intranet and access should be cut at the perimeter firewall. People needing access ...