Security News > 2020 > November > Home Wi-Fi security tips – 5 things to check

"Patch early, patch often" is a regular mantra on Naked Security, and it applies to all access points, modems and routers you use for your home network, as well as all the devices that can connect to it.

LEARN MORE ABOUT WEP AND WHY TO AVOID IT. Here's a video we made more than seven years ago explaining why you should choose decent encryption for your home Wi-Fi. Some older network devices don't support anything better than WEP, so it's tempting to keep on using WEP if your router still supports it.

Are there any rogue computers online? Perhaps the teenager next door is still connected from their last babysitting session? Are there any home devices such as webcams or baby monitors that you'd forgotten about or thought you'd turned off?

Paul Ducklin's recent article on 8 tips to tighten your work-from-home network included some great advice for securing IoT devices such as webcams and smart speakers.

Good computer security is, of course, something we need to take seriously every day, not just on November 30th. That said, it's worth using events like Computer Security Day as a prompt to take a deeper look at your security and check that everything is as it should be.

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