BT's Homehub which hackers found a critical security hole in which would have allowed full control of the router has been fixed.

BT has updated the latest firmware for the router and has removed Remote Assistance, which gave support staff admin rights to investigate problems in the router. Although the feature has been disabled BT said that it has other ways of accessing the and the feature will still appear on the routers menu, but will return an error if clicked.

This is good news for the two million plus Homehub users as BT has previously been criticized for not responding to a previous vulnerability reported in another of its routers last year.

The update is automatic to users but a report on the BT site gives the details.