Netgear on Friday released firmware updates for two of its router products lines, patching a hardcoded cryptographic key and an authentication bypass flaw that were reported six months ago.

Netgear warned customers to update their devices to the latest available firmware, which patches stored cross-site scripting (XSS) and authentication bypass vulnerabilities in several WiFi 6 ...

Netgear is hugely urging its router owners to check for firmware updates after a huge security flaw has just been fixed!

Netgear did not reply until Sept. 3, when it sent Compass a test version of new firmware that was supposed to fix the vulnerability.

Netgear says that it is working on a production firmware that will fix the command injection vulnerability and will release that firmware ASAP.

Netgear has provided security patches for all impacted models, and users can find the necessary downloads on Netgear's support page. If you own one of these routers, you should check your firmware ...

Updating the firmware should protect against issues 1596, 1597, and 1598. However, Netgear has yet to resolve 1595 - the main router vulnerability involving the network request.

A whopping 79 Netgear router models are vulnerable to a severe security flaw that can let hackers take over devices remotely. The vulnerability has been discovered by two security researchers ...

To Install: Note: To avoid wireless disconnect issue during the firmware download process, NETGEAR recommends that firmware upgrade be performed on a computer with wired connection.

Netgear is warning users of a critical remote code execution bug that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to take control of its Wireless AC Router Nighthawk (R7800) hardware running firmware ...

Netgear warns of code-smuggling vulnerabilities in Nighthawk Pro gaming routers. In addition, some routers have a security gap after the end of support.

UPDATE [October 10, 2016]: A Reddit user reported today that the exploit also worked on a Netgear R8000 model as well, albeit he didn't specify the router's firmware version number.