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Home Router Essay

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Abstract
Wireless home routers is the only barrier between a user’s personal information and the internet.
Such a vital position in the user’s network requires that the routers operate securely.
Unfortunately, recent research indicate that these devices have various security issues which expose them to malware attacks. To address the growing concerns about the security of home routers, it is important to perform dynamic analysis on home routers, even without accessing the actual hardware. This paper looks at the importance of home router security, the need for dedicated analysis tools through emulation and the process involved in emulating and profiling an ARM architecture based home router.
We emulate an ARM router and test the behaviour of this router via an emulated client. This has been done by using QEMU, an emulation tool, to virtualize the router. Upon development of the emulated ARM router and client, we found the task more difficult than previously thought due to a bug with the pcnet network interface card in qemu. We also performed analysis on the system calls generated when traffic was passed through the MIPSLE architecture based router and arrived at the conclusion that our environment is capable of detecting vulnerabilities in the security when the router is exposed to malware.
Introduction
With the advancement of communication networks there comes a grave need to protect one’s privacy. Our reach to the external network, or the internet is connected through a

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