Netgear, one of the world's largest networking hardware manufacturers, has received a surprising exemption from the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) new restrictions on foreign-made routers.

Well, that came sooner than I’d expected. Hot on the heels of the news that the U.S. government had banned all foreign-made routers that weren’t already on sale or approved by the FCC, word came on ...

Neither the FCC’s announcement nor Netgear’s announcement explain why Netgear was granted the temporary exemption. The FCC ...

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Almost two months after a high-severity flaw was disclosed – and seven months after it was first reported – Netgear has yet to issue fixes for 45 of its router models. Netgear will not patch 45 router ...