If you’re like me, your home Wi-Fi is at the center of almost everything you do online, whether it’s online banking, paying bills, booking trips, chatting with friends or streaming movies. These days, ...

When it comes to safeguarding your personal data, there may be no tool more important than the wireless router that powers your home WiFi network. Because it transmits all the data that flows into and ...

One option that’s easy to overlook is remote management of the router. This allows you (or anyone with your credentials) to ...

This is the third article of a series whose purpose is to provide experienced physical security practitioners with a comfortable familiarity with key aspects of computer and network security. Network ...

The bad news: most people don’t give a second thought to their routers. This lack of know-how puts a lot of households in a dangerous position. The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team ...

Update, Oct. 02, 2024: This story, originally published Sept. 30, now includes new research regarding 14 new router vulnerabilities, including a ten out of ten severity issue. If you are reading this, ...

With every fresh wave of new routers and networking equipment that hits the shelves comes the promise of a new age of functionality, usability, and security. Whether it’s the newest Nighthawk from ...

A new attack dubbed "TunnelVision" can route traffic outside a VPN's encryption tunnel, allowing attackers to snoop on unencrypted traffic while maintaining the appearance of a secure VPN connection.

There are a lot of knobs to tweak when making a home router as secure as possible. I keep a pretty comprehensive checklist of router security features on my RouterSecurity.org website. But that list ...

If Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) didn’t exist, network administrators would have to manually parcel out IP addresses from the available pool, which ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — If you think it’s creepy to have a peeping Tom looking through your windows, it’s nothing like hackers peeking through your security cameras. And you would never ...