Tips To Intact Your Router Security

When to comes to a impeccable network security, consumer routers are easily falls apart. Hackers take the advantage of lackadaisical OEM and attacks majority of household routers with an ease. So is there any way to intact your router security? Yes, there is a lot of ways you can strengthen your router security. For more detail on the issue, dial Cisco Router Customer Care number 1-855-536-5666 to get a more refined solution for our tech support.

Prior to any network attack, hacker initially alters the DNS server setting on your router and direct it toward malicious DNS server. So when users try to navigate to the particular website, the DNS server direct them to a phishing site. This is a dangerous situation especially when you are executing an online banking. Hacker can deliberately fool you and stole all the information regarding your bank account.

The majority of users are not aware of the fact that phishing site won’t have an HTTPS encryption. Nonetheless, hackers may also inject spyware and adware on the user's network. This further direct them to a server providing a script that injects ads. In case if your router security has been compromised, you can follow the underneath steps to recover it back.

●       Visit your router’s web-based interface and go through the DNS server setting.

●       With the help of a router’s documentation, check the connection’s gateway address.

●       Sign in with your account credential.

●       Look for the DNS setting in the internet connection or WAN connection.

●       If it’s set to “Manual”, that could very well be a problem.

●       Set it to Automatic to fix this issue.

Tips to intact your router security

●       Enable automatic firmware updates if it is available, or otherwise, you need to update the firmware of your router on the regular basis.

●       Deactivate remote access on the router’s web-based administration pages.

●       Change the username and the password to the router’s web-based administration interface.

●       Deactivate the UPnP option on the router.

On the other hand, if you are dealing with some other severe router malfunctionality then feel free to dial Cisco Router Tech Support Number  1-855-536-5666 and associate with our experts today.