Security researcher Michael Coppola demonstrated how small and home office (SOHO) routers can be compromised and turned into botnet clients by updating them with backdoored versions of vendor-supplied ...
I assume this is not the case because if you (or your parents) do not know that the router is updating and you (or your parents) suddenly loose internet, which will happen during an update, you (or ...
Frankly, I'm not sure a feature like remote SSH control should even be included in the base firmware in the first place on home routers. In all my years managing network interfaces, I have yet to find ...