Belkin has this time taken a step forward to enlighten Indian Wi-Fi users. Many home Internet router and Cable/DSL modems have a significant security vulnerability that can be attacked easily which is dangerous for many reasons.

Bluepill the first worm, originated in Australia can infect wifi routers and modems of home-users. Bluepill also known as Psyb0t is equipped with 6,000 different usernames and 13,000 popular passwords that it tries in various combinations to gain entry to your home network.

 Home-based wifi routers usually give unlimited attempts to get the username and password correct, making these devices vulnerable to infection. Wi-fi connections to your router and modem run 24 hours a day, so psyb0t has relatively unlimited amount of time to try and gain access.

Most home users will be unaware that they're infected, as Psyb0t is reportedly very hard to detect.

 So to prevent your Wi-Fi connection to be misused, Belkin believes it is extremely important to take precautionary measures against such kind of attacks.

Mohit Anand, Managing Director, India Sub continent, Belkin India, said, “Belkin has always been pro-active in making Wi-fi connections secure. Keeping that in mind, our