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In light of TalkTalk and Post Office Broadband routers being susceptible to the Mirai worm, I did a bit of digging and found:

http://www.routercheck.com/what-is-routercheck/

I'll be taking a closer look at this tonight.
Thankfully we're no longer with TalkTalk. I am using Post Office Broadband but not their originally supplied router.
 
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I bet there are bugs in every linux based router.

Give it 6 months and another one will be found for this same model or models.

Personally I use a Cisco router with a firewall in front of it.

I like something I can control well via a CLI.
 
There will be bugs and exploits in every hardware/software/appliance you can name. That said, I think the prevalence of cheap domestic/soho routers shipping with related firmware families all produced with minimal scrutiny is a timebomb that's been waiting to go off for some time. Both my routers/modems are bridged to a firewall. Even that doesn't mean the router/modem isn't doing something crazy where by it'll hoover up certain types of packets on the way in which are destined for it's management interfaces/protocols.

I'm running an intensive port scan on both my WAN IPs as we speak.
 
I have an Asus router running Merlin firmware but I'm starting to lean towards a Jetway NUC-ish thingy and pfSense.
 
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I have an Asus router running Merlin firmware but I'm starting to lean towards a Jetway NUC-ish thingy and pfSense.
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I have that with the broadband router purely as a modem. Also enabled a transparent proxy on it :)
 
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