How To Receive Firmware Update For Fios Quantum Gateway

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If yous're a Verizon FiOS client, update your router asap

Millions of Breakthrough gateways are vulnerable to attack.

If you're a Verizon FiOS customer, you probably have 1 of these for your home WiFi – the Quantum Gateway router shown to a higher place. You'll want to upgrade the firmware on it ASAP, as security researchers take discovered vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to take over both the router and your whole domicile network.

Researchers from Tenable put up a detailed blog mail service today with the 3 vulnerabilities explained, all of which touch Verizon FiOS' Breakthrough Gateway router. For their function, Tenable followed responsible disclosure proceedings, making Verizon aware back in December. Verizon fixed the issues and released a firmware patch on March 13.

With millions of customers, the FiOS routers would pose an attractive target for hackers, so information technology's good to see this was patched out quickly. In one case an attacker has taken over your router, most everything you lot do on your dwelling network is upwardly for grabs. That could range from pranks on your IoT smart devices and lights, to siphoning off banking company credentials and other important information.

While the thought of having your router vulnerable to set on is frightening, the iii attacks outlined here would need other data to work

The attacker would need to know the WiFi password, login credentials to the router, and too would have to be shut enough to connect to the WiFi. That makes anyone who has changed their password from the default manufacturing plant settings already protected.

While most customers automatically received the update, Verizon says that a small percentage with a detail version of the Quantum Gateway oasis't all the same been patched, and will need updating. Verizon's routers automatically connect to the update server and bank check for new firmware on boot, and so if you think you haven't received the update, only power-cycle your Breakthrough Gateway. That should pull downwardly the new patch. You can check for the current firmware version at Organisation Monitoring > Router Status from the direction portal on your router.

Verizon does release firmware files for its routers, but the patch for this crop of vulnerabilities hasn't been uploaded as a standalone file withal. Once they do, grab Version 02.02.00.13 from here, and so while you're on the same network equally the Quantum Gateway, get to the hidden firmware update management page and upload the file.

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