So I logged into the router (which still had its default password) and secured it.

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Worse, Linksys' devices come with a default password, "HomePlug, " rather than forcing you to install one of your own.

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Both attacks only applied to the millions of users too lazy to alter the default password used on their password when it was first installed.

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Then we changed the default user name and password, and within minutes the router was connected to the Internet and we were surfing away like nothing had changed, feeling oddly like we had missed some complicated step in the process.

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Automatic WiFi Security: The integrated router comes with wireless security turned on out-of-the-box, complete with a pre-configured network name and password, protecting home WiFi networks by default.

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Those include vulnerability to denial of service attacks, which overload servers with thousands of simultaneous requests for data, as well as basic hacking tactics like guessing the password of users who fail to change default settings.

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