Over a million fiber routers can be remotely accessed, thanks to an authentication bypass bug that's easily exploited by modifying the URL in the browser's address bar. The bug lets anyone bypass the ...

As fiber internet becomes more common, many households may still miss out on top speeds if their routers cannot handle the bandwidth. Wi‑Fi 7 routers are built to better match high-speed fiber ...

Google Fiber is an Internet service launched by Google in 2010, first in Kansas City. The service slowly expanded for the few years after that, before stalling out around 2015, although earlier this ...

Fiber-optic cables with blue and orange light coming out of the tips of the wire - yus1611/Shutterstock There was a time when Google Fiber was the hot new internet provider everyone wanted in their ...

Cierra was an associate writer for CNET's broadband team, covering all things home internet. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington with a master's degree. Cierra is ...

You might have really fast Internet service, but if your wireless router stinks, you will still be hampered by subpar performance, at least for your wireless devices. Unfortunately for Google Fiber ...

Several botnet operators are targeting a popular but vulnerable fiber router, which can be easily hijacked thanks to two authentication bypass and command injection bugs. ZDNet first reported the bugs ...

Researchers saw several IoT botnets using one of the bugs in the wild after a proof-of-concept was published in March. The Mootbot botnet has been using a pair of zero-day exploits to compromise ...

Exploitation can result in hackers gaining access to full browsing histories and all of the user’s internet activities. Consumers lucky enough to have blazing-fast 1Gbps internet access in their homes ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you're a Google Fiber customer, you were given a router to use with your service when you signed on. That might have kept folks who had a ...

It has nothing to do with your internet speed.

Google Fiber customers today can get up to two Google Wifi routers for free as part of their subscription. The Alphabet ISP is now letting customers bring their own router as part of the set-up ...