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Windows: If you want to create a network plan and need an inventory or just want to see all the devices using your Wi-Fi, Wireless Network Watcher from Nirsoft is a free utility that can help. It ...

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Your home network—and everything connected to it—is like a vault. Behind your login lies tons of valuable information, from unencrypted files containing personal data to devices that can be hijacked ...

CNET editor Dong Ngo points you in the general direction of how to access your home network remotely using a Dynamic DNS service. Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since ...

The Internet was built on university campuses. It was built by academics for academics, and without any notion of the new kinds of commerce, crime, and espionage it would enable. As the Internet ...

Authors of a new botnet are targeting connected devices affected by critical-level vulnerabilities, some of them impacting network security devices. The attacks are still active and use publicly ...

So a few days after setting up my Deco X60 I came home, and saw a bunch of notifications for new devices. I was used to that as I add things back like smart plugs, computers, laptops, phones, etc.