Household Cyber Defense

- What every device on your network is, and how to spot a new one - Why the router's admin password is not the wifi password, and why it matters - Filtering DNS: one setting that protects everyone in the house, including the people who did not come to this class - Getting your smart gadgets off the network your laptop is on - What to do when you cannot get into the router at all

- One password manager, set up properly, on every device you own - Two-factor on the accounts that matter, without locking yourself out - Recovery codes, printed, stored where they will actually help - A PIN with your mobile carrier, so nobody can steal your phone number and your text codes with it - Why passkeys stop phishing that two-factor codes do not

- Automatic updates and full-disk encryption, confirmed rather than assumed - What has access to your microphone, camera and location - Which browser extensions are reading every page you visit - Turning off the remote-access doors you did not know were open - Wiping and de-registering old devices so they stop approving your logins

- The callback rule: why never acting on an incoming call defeats almost everything - A family code phrase, and why a voice is no longer proof of anything - Freezing credit for yourself, your children and your parents - Spotting the delivery, toll and bank texts going around right now - Discord, Roblox and location sharing for kids - What to say so someone tells you they were scammed instead of hiding it