Certain manufacturers seriously dislike open-source firmware for their devices, and this particular hack deals with quite extreme anti-hobbyist measures. The Meraki MR33, made by Cisco, is a nice ...

IPFire gave my spare mini PC a job as a wired and wireless lab firewall.

Upgrading your router doesn't necessarily mean trashing your old one.

A new router designed in collaboration with the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) and OpenWrt Project is touted as the first router “designed and built with your software freedom and right-to-repair ...

OpenWrt, the open source firmware that sprang from Linksys’ use of open source code in its iconic WRT54G router and subsequent release of its work, is 20 years old this year. To keep the project going ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

A security issue that could have allowed attackers to serve malicious firmware images to users has been fixed by OpenWrt Project, the organization that helms the development of the popular Linux ...

OpenWrt provides an environment for building custom, Linux kernel-based firmware for a variety of embedded devices. Originally targeting the Linksys WRT54G series of routers, OpenWrt now provides ...

The OpenWrt One is now available generally after a limited release earlier this year. Sold for under $70 without a case, the router board is specifically designed to run OpenWrt out of the box, albeit ...

OpenWrt is an open source, Linux-based operating system designed for embedded devices like routers. The project has been around for two decades at this point, and can now be installed on thousands of ...

The open-source router firmware OpenWrt has been released in new versions that close several security vulnerabilities. Some of these can be exploited from the network and are partly in services that ...

For almost three years, OpenWRT—the open source operating system that powers home routers and other types of embedded systems—has been vulnerable to remote code-execution attacks because updates were ...