Security professionals have been telling us for years to change the default passwords on internet-connected smart home devices, but the UK is taking it a step further and mandating a crackdown on the ...

To make a Wi-Fi password, or change your current password, you'll need to access your router's settings page using a computer ...

To change your Wi-Fi password and name to increase your network security, you need the router's IP address to access the ...

One of the biggest cybersecurity mistakes that an organization can make is failing to change a default password. Consider for example, what might happen if a home user were to fail to change the ...

The UK has the answer to all our IoT problems: banning bad default passwords. Additionally, the new UK law requires device makers to provide contact info for vulnerability disclosures, as well as a ...

Looking to prevent another mass internet attack like the great Mirai hack, the United Kingdom just became the first country to ban weak default passwords on IoT devices. The law, which took effect ...

In a nutshell: Default passwords can be useful for streamlining the manufacturing process or helping system administrators easily deploy new devices in a network. They also are a scourge for the ...

I've used a lot of routers throughout my time on the internet, from ISP routers that have locked-down services to routers I kept way longer than I should have. Still, on every one that I could change ...

Security experts have called on Raspberry and Linux users to change default passwords on their machines as new data revealed the extent of bot-driven attempts to hijack systems. Cybersecurity vendor ...