D-Link
| D-Link Corporation
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1986 |
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Taipei Taiwan
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| management | John Lee |
| Number of employees | approx. 2,700 |
| sales | about 32 billion Taiwan dollars |
| Branch | Electronics industry |
| Website | www.dlink.com |
| Last updated 2012 | |
The D-Link Corporation ( Chinese 友 訊 科技 , Pinyin Yǒuxùn Kējì - "friendly signaling technology") is a manufacturer of network technology devices .
history
The company was founded in 1986 as Datex Systems Inc. by Ken Kao in Taipei , Taiwan, where the company's headquarters are also located. In 1987 the company launched its first network card, in 1989 its own integrated circuits and in 1990 its first hub , each for Ethernet . The company launched its first router in 1996 and its first products with WLAN or Bluetooth in 2001. In 2007 it became a manufacturer of mobile phones and in 2008 a distributor of network storage . At the beginning of the 2010s, over a third of D-Link's sales came from the radio technology division , followed by almost a third from switches and a sixth each from broadband and home electronics.
After Ken Kao's death in April 2008, Tony Tsau took over the chairmanship of D-Link on July 1, 2008. In September 2011, Roger Kao became CEO of D-Link Corporation. AP Chen has served as President since 2011.
In addition to D-Link in Taipei, the subsidiary D-Link India Limited is listed on the stock exchange in Mumbai . D-Link has around three dozen branches on six continents. The first office in Europe was opened in 1989 and originally also targeted North America. D-Link Europe Ltd. is based in London . In 1991 the company opened a branch in Germany and changed its name from Datex Systems to D-Link in 1992 . The D-Link (Germany) GmbH in Eschborn responsible for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The company has additional sales offices in Vienna and Zurich. Since September 2003, the development department of D-Link has been outsourced as a separate listed company Alpha Networks and has grown into a manufacturing company with around 6,000 employees.
Security issue
In mid-October 2013, a backdoor without a password became known in the firmware of some D-Link routers , open to remote access for any web browser with a special identifier that is easily adjustable. This vulnerability was easy to find in the machine code and affected thousands of routers on the Internet. D-Link originally promised a remedy for the end of October, but was only able to provide it in early December 2013.
At the beginning of October 2016 it became known that the UMTS / LTE router D-Link DWR-932 Version B had a number of serious security gaps at this time. This included SSH admin accounts with standard passwords. D-Link is said to have known about the vulnerabilities since mid-June 2016, but did not make patches available until mid-October 2016.
In September 2017, security researcher Pierre Kim published numerous critical security vulnerabilities in D-Link's wireless router DIR-850L. Firmware updates have been announced for the second half of September.
In September 2019, further serious security vulnerabilities were published in four D-Link routers. D-Link did not provide any updates due to the EOL status of the devices and recommends its customers to replace the affected routers.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Annual Report 2012 (PDF; 9.6 MB) D-Link. Retrieved February 9, 2014.
- ^ History of D-Link . D-Link. Retrieved February 9, 2014.
- ↑ a b c d Corporate Profile . D-Link India. Retrieved February 9, 2014.
- ^ Plunkett's Infotech Industry Almanac . Plunkett Research, 2008 ( excerpt online from Google [accessed February 9, 2014]).
- ^ Company Profile . Alpha Networks. Archived from the original on February 21, 2014. Retrieved February 9, 2014.
- ↑ Backdoor found in D-Link router firmware code . International Data Group . October 14, 2013. Retrieved February 9, 2014.
- ↑ Reverse engineering a D-Link backdoor . Craig Heffner. Retrieved February 9, 2014.
- ↑ D-Link routers found to contain backdoor . ZDNet . October 15, 2013. Retrieved February 9, 2014.
- ↑ D-Link closes the user agent back door . In: heise online . December 2, 2013. Retrieved February 9, 2014.
- ↑ LTE hotspot as a security nightmare: The D-Link DWR-932B . heise online. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
- ↑ heise Security: D-Link DIR-850L: Routers can be hijacked, patches not available. Retrieved September 14, 2017 .
- ↑ heise Security: Serious vulnerability in the D-Link DIR-850L router: Patches will come on September 19th. Retrieved July 7, 2018 .
- ↑ heise Security: Obsolete router models from D-Link: No update for firmware vulnerabilities. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .