Installation and placing your WiFi device in any place in your home is not enough; most of you just don’t realize that keeping your smartphones connected and secure is not all you also need to secure the router. This should not be the least concerning thing; it is the source of providing you internet access and can also be exploited by hackers. Weak or poor passwords are the key to their access to your WiFi device and hack your system.
How To Protect Your WiFi Password
An average person might think that hackers or cyber criminals only get access to a local network; well, this is the game's start. They further go through your WiFi in PC, smartphones, and other connected devices; all these are the possibly affected devices. Personal information can be easily hacked by dark army and be used for other purposes, track location, and other actions are seen to be taken when the password is vulnerable.
But if you want to lower the risk, protect the particular information from such hackers and make your device more secure, follow the following steps;
Change The Password
By changing the default name, it becomes challenging for such malicious attackers to sneak in because if they know the manufacturer of your router, it will become easy for them to get the relevant weak point it has.
Don’t: name them in a challenging way for instance, ‘catch me if you can’ or things like that; this sometimes does not go as planned. Don’t name them after your surname like ‘Hamid’s WiFi’; this is the most common mistake.
Updated Firmware
Firmware is low-level software that your router runs, which typically controls the whole thing of your router. It set some security standards, explains the terms on which device connect, etc. some new model router has this option to update themselves but not all. So it’s also your responsibility to keep in check and keep your firmware up to date to protect from any possible bug, malware, and hacking.
Disable Remote Access
Usually, routers only allow connected devices to access the interface. But in some cases, they have the option to enable and connect from the remote system. So you also need to turn off remote access; this will deny any sort of malicious attackers to access your router, access your settings in any way. Devices not connected to through proper password won’t be able to connect to your WiFi. Remote administration is there for changes you want.
Clear Your Preferred Network List
The PNL, Preferred Network List is where the other WiFi devices that you have been previously connected to get automatically connects. This simply can be understood by that you went to MacDonald’s ones and used their WiFi for a single time, from then your device will connect automatically to that and other similar name devices. Yes, this does happen. To avoid such behavior, you can delete the preferred networks through ‘manage known networks’ and choose to forget the networks you don’t want anymore to automatically connect.
Security Comes First
Despite all of the previous neglecting behavior towards passwords and security, now is the time to handle the essential and crucial security settings by yourself. To reduce the risk, follow security steps on your own, keep firmware and device updated, look for proper and safe applications and browsers. Go through WiFi manager to manage settings. If you forget the WiFi password, you can still retrieve it if you have another windows PC connected to it. You can find your WiFi password in windows 10 settings in the network and sharing center.
Get your WiFi password secure now!
