EE working on emergency fix to security flaw - UPDATED

Stuart Sumner
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Provider's broadband customers who signed up after early 2012 are affected, as are earlier customers who upgraded their routers

Telecoms provider EE is working on an emergency fix for a security flaw in its routers, discovered by a researcher earlier this month. Writing on his blog, security enthusiast Scott Helme said t...

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