BT Home Hub, the wireless router supplied with BT broadband packages is reported to be vulnerable to the attacks of hackers and other external threats, according to Adrian Pastor and Petko D. Petkov who say all Alcatel Speedtouch 7G routers will have same problem as Home Hub and these routers are made by Alcatel. Due to the presence of many bugs in these routers, a hacker can easily override password authentication system and assume the role of administrator. This makes these routers quite incapable of providing complete security to your PC and network, thereby it is open to exploitation of your VoIP service or Wi-fi service, according to the report in theregister.co.uk.

Even without knowing the administrator password, a hacker can gain control of the PC/network just by making the user to visit a specific site which is used by hackers to collect all vital information about the user. The crafty design of the hackers may also include the secret listening to your VoIP calls or stealthily getting your WPA key.

However, BT issued a statement saying that it was seriously looking into the matter. BT further said: "However, as part of a series of ongoing improvements, this week we began pushing out a new firmware update to Home Hub owners which further improves security in a number of areas,"