Pro tip: Check your router logs every month. Here's why.

I noticed my internet getting slower over about two weeks. At first I blamed my ISP. Then I actually looked at my router logs for the first time in maybe 6 months. There were over 200 failed login attempts from different IP addresses in just one day. Someone was trying to brute force my admin password. Turns out I never changed the default password from the factory setting. I switched to a 20 character random password and enabled two factor authentication. Now my logs are clean. How often do you guys actually check your router logs?

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mason.drew2d ago

Check failed internal attempts too, not just external ones.

bell.jessica1d ago

Wait, "check failed internal attempts too"? That's wild. I thought most of the trouble came from people on the outside trying to hack in. It's kinda scary to think that someone who already has a keycard and a desk could be the one messing things up.

the_riley2d ago

Yeah, @mason.drew I actually read a security blog that said insiders cause way more data leaks than outsiders.