Following a large-scale Russian hacking operation targeting routers, and new FCC guidance, what can you do to make sure your home internet connection is safe?

The FBI and Department of Justice recently disrupted a Russian attack targeting home and small-office business routers.

A single unauthenticated connection gives attackers a full shell; credential theft observed in under three minutes on honeypot servers.

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...