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NSA: How to Secure Your Home NetworkPreview:
The NSA has an excellent PDF pamphlet on how to secure a home or small business network. They give excellent advice. The NSA has produced a good 9-page pdf pamphlet on how to secure your home network. Miscreants are attacking our home networks and using them to attack websites and for password cracking attacks. They also attack the computers that were protected by the router. We should take responsibility for them and the NSA provides shockingly good advice in a readable format. It starts off: Don't be a victim! Malicious cyber actors may leverage your home network to gain access to personal, private, and confidential information. Help protect yourself, your family, and your work by practicing cybersecurity-aware behaviors, observing some basic configuration guidelines, and implementing the following mitigations on your homeThey are correct and they give great advice for both home users and small businesses. Here are some of them. Some I strongly recommend and a few I hadn't thought of! But the whole PDF is worth reading. I've written about most of them many times before. The best one is probably here. I go through my recommended router settings and reasoning. Router Recommendations
Recommendations for Online Behavior
Here's One I Didn't Know AboutDo not charge your devices in public charging stations. It seems that public charging places can be compromised to send malware to your phone. If you must use them, for instance you need to be able to charge at airports, then use a USB data blocker, they are only a few dollars. HowToGeek wrote an article about this.
Date: May 2023
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