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Bug bounty hunters hacked a NETGEAR router and a Western Digital network-attached storage device on the first day of the Zero Day Initiative's Pwn2Own Tokyo 2020 hacking competition. On the first day of the event, the NETGEAR Nighthawk R7800 router was targeted by Team Black Coffee, Team Flashback, and teams from cybersecurity firms Starlabs and Trapa Security.
NETGEAR welcomes Sarah Butterfass to the company's board of directors. Sarah is the incoming Chief Product Officer at FanDuel.
NETGEAR is introducing the industry-first WiFi 6 mesh system with built-in multigigabit modem - the Orbi WiFi 6 Tri-band Mesh System with DOCSIS3. The new NETGEAR Orbi WiFi 6 with Built-in Cable Modem enables households to take advantage of the latest technologies to enjoy the most advanced broadband internet speeds and high-performance WiFi available.
With the new NETGEAR Insight Managed Business Router, these remote employees will simply need a BR200 in their home or remote office to connect to another BR200 in the main office and be able to access data residing on their office network securely. Designed specifically to enable businesses to instantly protect their networks with a secure site-2-site VPN and firewall rapidly and cost-effectively through the Insight Cloud Portal or mobile app, the Insight Managed Business Router comes with easy setup, firewall, VLAN management, and remote cloud monitoring and management from anywhere.
The Orbi Pro WiFi 6 Tri-band Mesh System is an industry leading tri-band WiFi 6 multi-node mesh system designed to grow with small businesses and home offices as the need to expand their area of network coverage increases. Featuring the latest WiFi data security standard, WPA3, along with 4 SSIDs and VLAN support, the Orbi Pro WiFi 6 Mesh System provides a secure network while also isolating connections for separate activities, making it the ideal solution for today's work from home paradigm.
NETGEAR announces four new Gigabit Ethernet High-Power PoE+ Unmanaged Switches - two 16-port and two 24-port models - which provide the flexibility of rack-mounted or desktop installation and an industry-first PoE mode selector on select models. To address this industry trend, NETGEAR is expanding its PoE portfolio with new Unmanaged PoE+ switches supplying larger PoE budgets and High-Power PoE+/PoE++ switches that include Ultra60 PoE++ ports with up to 60W per port.
Netgear announced the availability of Insight Managed WiFi 6 AX1800 Access Points, WAX610 and WAX610Y, for an optimal WiFi experience in every business environment. This new WAX610 family brings next generation WiFi 6 performance to SMBs delivering up to 70% faster speed to each individual device than previous generation WiFi 51.
UPDATE. Netgear will not patch 45 router models that are vulnerable to a high-severity remote code execution flaw, the router company revealed last week. The company says that routers that won't receive updates are outdated or have reached EOL. The remote code execution vulnerability in question, which was disclosed June 15, allows network-adjacent attackers to bypass authentication on vulnerable Netgear routers - sans authentication.
Netgear has quietly decided not to patch more than 40 home routers to plug a remote code execution vulnerability - despite security researchers having published proof-of-concept exploit code. Keen-eyed Reg readers noticed that Netgear quietly declared 45 of the affected products as "Outside the security support period" - meaning those items won't be updated to protect them against the vuln.
Joining the flagship Orbi WiFi 6 AX6000 Tri-band Mesh System, this new Orbi Mesh System, with its attractive price point, is designed to make robust whole home WiFi 6 mesh accessible to more households around the globe. Following on the tremendous success of the award-winning Orbi WiFi 6 AX6000 mesh system and the numerous WiFi 6 clients now available from phone and laptop manufacturers, the Orbi AX4200 WiFi 6 Mesh Systems join NETGEAR's industry-leading portfolio of WiFi 6 network product offerings.