Your Old Router Is Stealing Your Microsoft Passwords for Russia — And You'd Never Know
Russian military hackers from GRU's Forest Blizzard unit hijacked over 18,000 home and business routers — without installing any malware — and used th...
Smart Home Security Blog
232 articles on IoT security, smart devices, and protecting your connected home.
The Database That Tells You If Your Devices Are Safe Just Stopped Working for Most Vulnerabilities
NIST announced it will no longer fully analyze most CVEs submitted to the National Vulnerability Database, after a 263% surge in vulnerability submiss...
The Encryption Library in 5 Billion Devices Just Broke: CVE-2026-5194 and the wolfSSL Certificate Forgery Flaw
A critical flaw in wolfSSL — the most widely deployed embedded TLS library on the planet — allowed attackers to forge digital certificates and imperso...
Your Digital Life Is Worth More Than You Think — And When You Die, Most of It Disappears: The 2026 Guide to Digital Legacy, Digital Twins, and Digital Wealth
Americans hold an average of $191,516 in digital assets, yet 76% have no plan for what happens to them. Crypto wallets go dark. Social media accounts ...
Prego Made a $20 Device That Records Your Family Dinner Conversations — Here's What You Need to Know Before You Press Record
Prego just partnered with StoryCorps to release the Connection Keeper, a puck-shaped recorder that sits on your dinner table and captures family conve...
The Voice in the Room: What Alexa, Google Home, and Every Other Smart Speaker in Your House Is Actually Doing in 2026
Voice assistants have quietly evolved from novelty gadgets to persistent AI agents embedded throughout the home — in speakers, displays, doorbells, th...
Ditch the Cloud: How to Build a Fast, Private, Open-Source Home Automation System With Zigbee and Home Assistant in 2026
Cloud-dependent smart home platforms are always listening, frequently broken, and eventually discontinued. Here's how to build a local-first home auto...
Your Own AI, Running in Your Own Home: The Complete 2026 Guide to Local AI for Families, Health, Automation, and Everything Else
Every conversation you have with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini leaves your home and lands on a corporate server. Local AI runs entirely on hardware you o...
Three Microsoft Defender Zero-Days Are Being Actively Exploited — Two Still Don't Have Patches
Attackers are actively exploiting three zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Defender. Two of the three remain unpatched as of mid-April 2026. If you...
Critical ESPHome Vulnerability Lets Anyone on Your Wi-Fi Push Malicious Firmware to Your Smart Home Devices
A critical authentication bypass flaw (CVE-2025-57808) in ESPHome's web server component allows anyone on your local network to bypass login entirely ...
Your Router Is Being Rented Out as a Cyberweapon: The Masjesu DDoS-for-Hire Botnet Explained
Masjesu is a commercial DDoS-for-hire botnet sold on Telegram that has quietly infected routers and gateways worldwide, launching floods of up to 290 ...
Russian Military Hackers Hijacked 18,000 Home Routers to Steal Your Passwords — FBI Fights Back With Operation Masquerade
APT28, Russia's GRU-linked hacking unit, quietly compromised thousands of TP-Link home routers and redirected their DNS to Kremlin-controlled servers ...