Secure DNS Settings for Your Home Network
Secure DNS Settings for Your Home Network. Learn what to check, what the result means, common mistakes, and how to verify the setup with MyIPScan.
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Category: Home Network and Wi-Fi Security
Securing a home network and Wi-Fi: WPA2 and WPA3, unknown devices, guest networks, public and hotel Wi-Fi, and safe remote access.
How to Set Up Guest Wi-Fi Safely
How to Set Up Guest Wi-Fi Safely. Learn what to check, what the result means, common mistakes, and how to verify the setup with MyIPScan.
Read guideRDP Port 3389: The Security Risk and How to Close It
RDP Port 3389: The Security Risk and How to Close It. Clear steps, checks, common mistakes, and safe next actions for reading the result without overclaiming privacy or security.
Read guideVPN Not Connecting on Public Wi-Fi: Causes and Fixes
VPN Not Connecting on Public Wi-Fi: Causes and Fixes. Learn what to check, what the result means, common mistakes, and how to verify the setup with MyIPScan.
Read guideEvil Twin Wi-Fi Attack: How It Works and How to Spot One
A rogue hotspot can sit nearby with a stronger signal and forward your traffic so nothing looks wrong. Turn off auto-join and match the BSSID before you send anything sensitive.
Read guideHow to Safely Give Someone Remote Access to Your Computer
Before a relative, technician or caller takes over your screen, confirm who started the contact, use a one-time session tool, then remove the software and change exposed passwords.
Read guideIoT Guest Network Setup: Isolate Smart Devices
Put cameras, plugs and speakers on a separate Wi-Fi with client isolation, then ping across networks to check it holds. Isolation contains a hacked device but hides nothing from your ISP.
Read guideIs Public Wi-Fi Safe With HTTPS? What the Padlock Misses
The padlock encrypts page content, passwords and cookies, but plain DNS lookups, the site name in SNI and some apps stay readable. Check a hotspot's security type on any device.
Read guideBuilding a Network Device Inventory That Helps Your Privacy
Record the name, IP, MAC, firmware version and network segment of each device, include temporary, mobile and virtual ones, and use the list to decide what to isolate or patch.
Read guide7 Signs of Suspicious Network Activity, and How to Check Each
Set a baseline from your public IP, your router's device list and Task Manager or Activity Monitor, then check seven red flags, from upload spikes to disabled security software.
Read guideMonitoring Home Network Traffic: What You Can Actually See
Your router, system tools, monitoring software and DNS-level monitoring each show part of the picture. Take readings before and after one change and treat IP location as approximate.
Read guideHow to List Every Device on Your Network and Identify It
Open your router's device list, run arp -a, or try a scanner such as Fing, then match each IP and MAC address to something you own and decide what to do about the rest.
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