FCC Bans Import of Foreign-Made Consumer Routers; TP-Link Issues Emergency Patches

FCC the FCC banned import of foreign-made consumer routers, the FCC banned the import of foreign-made consumer routers.

Import ban the ban excludes routers already in use and routers currently in stock, the ban does not apply to routers already in use or currently in stock.

Consumer router market about 60% of consumer routers in U.S. households are foreign-made, about 60% of consumer routers used in U.S. households are foreign-made.

TP-Link released emergency patches for Archer NX series vulnerabilities, tP-Link released emergency patches for vulnerabilities in the Archer NX series.

Archer NX vulnerability a hardcoded cryptographic key can decrypt, modify, and re-encrypt configuration files, a hardcoded cryptographic key can be used to decrypt, modify, and re-encrypt configuration files.