You\u2019re doing everything right \u2013 using good security software, a strong Wi-Fi network password so you\u2019re safe, right. Well– most likely.<\/span><\/p>\n Hackers are nothing if not innovative and they can break into a router using what\u2019s known as DNS-hijacking. And if your router is compromised, so are all the devices connected by it. And let\u2019s be honest \u2013 the chances that your router has been compromised are quite slim. But, since it takes only a few seconds to make sure, we\u2019re going to provide you with a link to a website where you can check your router to be sure it hasn\u2019t been hijacked.<\/span><\/p>\n Before we do that, again we want to make sure you understand that it is very unlikely your router has been compromised \u2013 our motto is always to present things in an honest, non-scary way. We don\u2019t like tech sites that scare people to get viewers\/readers.<\/span><\/p>\n So, take a few seconds to make sure your router is clean and uncompromised; we\u2019re pretty sure you\u2019ll find that is.<\/span><\/p>\n Check your router by going to this site and clicking the \u201cCheck your router\u201d button.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Above are my results. You will notice that my ISP and DNS say “Google”.. I use Spectrum as my ISP but you’d never know it. That’s because I use Google’s Public DNS servers<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Check Your Router and Make Sure It’s Hacker-free You\u2019re doing everything right \u2013 using good security software, a strong Wi-Fi network password so you\u2019re safe, right. Well– most likely. Hackers are nothing if not innovative and they can break into a router using what\u2019s known as DNS-hijacking. And if your router is compromised, so are all\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2883,3472,1670,1656],"tags":[213],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20687,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20686\/revisions\/20687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Coudeight](\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/saferouter.png\")
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