{"id":267853,"date":"2018-05-30T16:27:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T20:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/?p=267853"},"modified":"2018-05-30T16:27:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T20:27:09","slug":"fbi-security-alert-reboot-home-office-voip-routers-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/fbi-security-alert-reboot-home-office-voip-routers-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Security Alert: Reboot your Home or Office VoIP Routers Immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May 29th, 2018 &#8211; According to FBI, many computer routers that connect US homes and businesses to the internet may be hacked or infected by malware. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The malware may steal users&#8217; personal data or cripple your website service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Foreign cyber actors have compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and other networked devices worldwide,&#8221; the FBI said in a warning released on Friday. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-267873\" src=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2018\/05\/fbi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"684\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2018\/05\/fbi.jpg 684w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2018\/05\/fbi-150x58.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2018\/05\/fbi-300x117.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/>What can you do?<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reboot your home or office routers immediately<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disable remote management settings on the router<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Update your login with a secure password<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make sure your security is updated to the latest available version of firmware<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s important to regularly update your firmware and have the latest VoIP networking equipment to ensure that your VoIP system is well protected from intruders. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you need help with upgrading <\/span><a href=\"\/networking\/switches\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">switches<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"\/networking\/routers\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">routers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"\/networking\/session-border-controllers\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">session border controllers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or other <\/span><a href=\"\/networking\/security\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">security appliances<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, call one of our VoIP consultants at 1-800-398-8647 today!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 29th, 2018 &#8211; According to FBI, many computer routers that connect US homes and businesses to the internet may be hacked or infected by malware. The malware may steal users&#8217; personal data or cripple your website service. &#8220;Foreign cyber actors have compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and other networked devices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-small-business-voip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267853"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267903,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267853\/revisions\/267903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}