Finally locked down my home network after 3 years of putting it off

I live in a small apartment in Portland and always figured my router's default settings were fine for just me and my roommate. Last month, I realized our wifi had been open to anyone within range this whole time... someone had even renamed our network to something weird. I spent a Sunday afternoon changing the password, setting up a guest network, and turning on WPA2 encryption. It took about 30 minutes total and I feel way better about streaming and online banking now. Has anyone else had a moment where they realized their network was way more exposed than they thought?

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miller.susan1d ago

Default settings being fine describes a lot more than just wifi.

tyler_baker23h ago

50% of data breaches start with default credentials still in place.