Secure Your Router
If you use a router for your Internet connection and rely on it to provide network protection, you must make it require a secure password. If your router doesn’t require a password, anyone can connect to it across the Internet and delete the filters you’ve set up. (As configured by the manufacturers and ISPs, connection-sharing routers are set up with the same password. Usually it’s password. On the plus side, they typically won’t accept configuration commands from the Internet, but only from your own network.)
To lock down your router, you have to follow procedures for your specific router. You’ll want to do the following:
• Change the router’s administrative password to a combination of letters, numbers, and punctuation. ...
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