Cybercriminals can take over hardware to carry out illicit activity. Worryingly, it’s not only your data that’s at risk. The truth is, whatever flows through your network could fall prey to any well-versed hacker. Typically, attackers will search for ways to access sensitive information such as: If you fail to update your router, consider yourself a target for hackers. RISKS OF OUTDATED ROUTER FIRMWAREĪll internet activity passes through your router, so any security flaw puts all of your data at risk.Įven renowned products from well-known brands such as Apple, Amazon, and Google are vulnerable to data hacks. You could be subjecting your data, your security, your banks accounts even, to a significant threat – as you need to regularly update your router firmware to keep its security features up-to-date. Yet, there’s a hidden risk to such a lack of attention. Then starts the fix-all sequence: turn off, turn on, and hope for the best. Thank you for pointing it out.MANY PEOPLE FORGET WHERE THEY POSITIONED THEIR ROUTER– THAT IS UNTIL THE INTERNET STOPS WORKING. Fairly easy and painless to update RouterOS. We are done and the system is now updated to the latest available firmware. system package update> check-for-updates Let’s check again and see what version of RouterOS is currently running. Installing the new firmware took less than a minute. You will be asked for confirmation prior to rebooting. Status: Downloaded, please reboot router to upgrade it Now that we know there is an available update we tell the router to download and install. Making use of the /system package update check-for-updates we can also view the running version and latest available version of RouterOS for download. My hAP at the time it arrived was running RouterOS version 6.30.4. I know of two ways to view the current running firmware. it only requires a few commands and requires little user input. I found updating the router from the command line to be quite easy an straight forward. My Mikrotik router was running version 6.30 which I needed to update to version 6.31 in order to support RSA keys. Mikrotik - Upgrade RouterOS from the Command Line
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