How to Protect Home Wi-Fi Networks?

 

Nowadays digital crimes are spreading all over rapidly. We all want a complete full stop on every type of malicious activity happening around. Let’s try to stop crimes from your home first as taking a small step can help in making a difference. Good change happens if you decide to put some extra efforts. You can protect your home Wi-Fi networks adequately by going through this blog carefully.

Top 3 Ways To Protect Your Home Wi-Fi Networks

1. Protect your gadgets

The best things to start with is to protect your gadgets such as PC and smartphones etc. These gadgets can easily get infected from the applications that are free but functions at the cost of your safety.

• I suggest you have a good antivirus to protect your gadget from different types of viruses. There are luckily different types of antivirus available in the market that also varies in their charges.
• It is worth noting that you should always prefer installing applications from the Play Store or any other official source.
•  If you try to install an application from any other place, then you not only end up having advertisements in between at the time of using such applications but also can risk your safety. It risks your safety as the hackers can easily penetrate in your device and take your private information like your bank details and passwords of your rest of the accounts as well.
• Protect your Wi-Fi

If you have Wi-Fi facility at your place and your Wi-Fi service provider has put a password on your behalf, then it is high time now.

• Change your Wi-Fi password as soon as possible because until and unless you put your password, Wi-Fi network will not be considered entirely safe. Changing your password will hardly take few minutes.
• Don’t give access to camera and microphone

I mentioned above that if someone knows your password in any of the cases, then it is always better to change the password after it immediately. To get the password spread it takes only a few seconds.

• To avoid spreading of your password always set strong password and keep changing the password frequently.
• But there is even a high probability that when the access of camera and microphone is given to the applications then in some other part of the world someone is looking at you.

So to prevent someone looking at you, the best step that can be taken is put a brown or black tape on the camera or don’t give access to the camera or microphone if it is optional.

Source :- https://macfeeactivate.com/blog/how-to-protect-home-wi-fi-networks/

Karen Minton is a creative person who has been writing blogs and articles about cybersecurity. She writes about the latest updates regarding mcafee.com/activate and how it can improve the work experience of users. Her articles have been published in many popular e-magazines, blogs, and websites.