Recently there has been some controversy about home routers and default passwords. It seems particularly that on Verizon routers users aren't changing their default password and it makes them vulnerable with some of the new attacks coming out. To counter act this Verizon is logging into the routers remotely (using a service port that they have open on your router) and changing the password for you!! By default they have been setting it to the serial number of the router, but seriously talk about privacy invasion?! Disabling this port on your router will help keep Verizon out, but I'm sure it will only infuriate them as well. So if you use FIOS or any other Verizon internet service you may want to check if your password has been changed.
On a similar note I bring this up because aside from passwords being changed firmware is being remotely installed on user's routers as well. While everyone loves a good software update to keep them secure, we don't like it when they break things that were previously working. The new firmware update seems to break Checkpoint's VPN-1 client software, so you'll have to rollback your firmware in order to get it functioning again. I'm all for security, but this is going a little to far...
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