Introduction
As she sat watching the upload of a picture to her SpyMace account make painfully slow progress, Savannah mumbled, “come on, I haven’t got all minute.” It seemed that despite all of the commercials about how her cable provider had recently upgraded its equipment to “blazing fast speeds”, her Internet connection had slowed to a sloth’s pace. Her computer seemed content, but she Ctrl-Alt-Deleted any way to check out the task manager. Only three percent CPU utilization brushed away a nagging doubt that spy-ware had gotten past the security suite her dad had installed. As she drummed her fingers on her desktop, she thought about her options.
She remembered David from her Chemistry class talking about typing “ipconfig” at a command prompt. He said it would tell her what her gateway was so she could see her router’s configuration. She tried that and found out that it was 192.168.0.1. She typed that address in her web browser. She smiled as a user name, password prompt flashed on her screen. Then she wondered, could her dad have been so dense as to have not changed the password?
What did she do?
She blissfully believed her dad had done everything necessary to protect their home network.
She researched her router on the web to see what the
manufacturer sets as the default password.