Can an intruder remotely reset a Linksys WRT54G v5 router to default?

What just happened is clear ... but HOW it happened ... is not clear to me.

Here's what happened:

1. I was home with my PC connected wirelessly to my Linksys WRT54G router
2. The connection was WPA2/PSK with wireless administrator access 'enabled'
3. The connection went down; the router disappeared from view
4. Shortly thereafter, the strongest signal was SSID=linksys
5. My teen-age kid experienced the same thing - at the same time
6. Only the kid & I were home so NOBODY physically touched the router!
7. Yet, the Linksys WRT54Gv5 router was clearly reset back to defaults.

How can that happen without anyone pressing the reset button? Can a Linksys home broadband router be reset by an intruder on the net?

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Posted 5 years ago by William Bonner in Wireless Networking

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