Ars reader Jerry got a nasty surprise as he was browsing the contents of his external hard drive over the weekend. A mysterious text file warning him that he had been hacked thanks to a critical vulnerability in the Asus router he used to access the drive from various locations on his local network. It’s likely that Jerry wasn’t the only person to find the alarming message had been uploaded to a hard drive presumed to be off-limits to outsiders. Two weeks ago a group posted almost 13,000 IP addresses its members said hosted similarly vulnerable Asus routers.”]

