3 Things In Your Home Office That Can Lead To A Breach

3 Things in Your Office or Home Office That Can Get Breached

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Working from home these days? Your home office may have similar devices and software as your work office, however, at home you're open to a new set of threats as your personal devices and software typically have limited security in place.

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Here are 3 Things in Your Home Office That You Need to Monitor:

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1. Smart Printers

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Many printers nowadays are connected to your wifi network and can access your files.

Printers usually have very minimal built-in security features which makes them desirable for cybercriminals. Another thing to note is that when a printer is given away, thrown away, or sold, many do not wipe off the data on it which makes that information easy for hackers to access.

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2. Wifi network

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This one is more commonly known, however, many people don't realize just how common it is.

By using a technique called DNS (Domain Name Server) hijacking, hackers can breach the security of your home or office Wi‑Fi and potentially cause you a great deal of harm.
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3. Smart home devices

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Smart speakers, lights, switches, cameras, you name it.

Smart home devices are everywhere and may unknowingly introduce backdoors into our networks.