If you've ever glanced at the back of your router, you might have noticed tiny LED lights next to the Ethernet port. Your Ethernet port is a physical interface found on routers and some other devices ...

In most modern homes, a wireless router handles all of the Internet traffic that comes and goes. Gigabytes of data flow through it every month. It's a very busy little device, which you can see for ...

Let’s face it — experiencing an internet outage can be frustrating, especially if you don’t know what’s causing the problem. Instead of staring at all those blinking modem and router lights with ...

You may have noticed that your router and modem have, like, a ton of constantly blinking lights on them. Actually, I was being facetious saying "you may have noticed" because these lights are totally ...

A system which is air-gapped is generally considered safe from intrusion as there are few network tunnels or avenues for hackers to exploit. After all, if you can't connect, you can't steal or tamper ...

Researchers say sensitive data can be extracted from air-gapped networks via a wireless router’s blinking LEDs. Researchers have uncovered a new data extraction hole inside air-gapped networks that ...

Standing in the networking aisle of an electronics retail store, anybody could mistakenly pick up a router instead of an Ethernet switch or vice versa. The product packages as well as the devices ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...