New Critical Password Warning – 86% Of All Router Users Need To Act Now
If you are reading this, you are almost certainly doing so without realizing you could be leaving the door open to hackers. New research has revealed that an astonishing 86% of broadband users have little idea about cybersecurity, or at least the security of the device they use to connect to the internet. That’s the number of people who have never changed their broadband router admin password from the factory default, and that’s a grave concern, security experts have warned. Here’s why and what you need to do about it right now.
Broadband Genie Router Security Survey Discloses Critical Security Lapse
The latest router security survey carried out on behalf of Broadband Genie has provided a chilling insight into the security habits of internet users. Or should that be insecurity habits? To compare how router security attitudes had changed when compared to the previous two surveys, completed in 2018 and 2022, the survey polled more than 3,000 users., asking identical questions as in previous years.
The headline statistics to be pulled from the report are that 52% of users had never delved into their router settings to configure the device differently from the factory default state in any way. An astonishing 86%, however, admitted to never having changed the factory set administrator password default either. These figures show an increase from earlier survey results, showing that cybersecurity awareness would appear to be decreasing among the general router-using population.
Source: Forbes