Although everyone wants a convenient home, there’s little that’s less convenient than a hacked smart home appliance. When it comes to the best smart home devices, the hard and fast rule is: if it’s connected to Wi-Fi you’re going to need to make sure it's secured because there’s going to be a way to hack it.
The good news is that once you've figured out how to lock down one, it's pretty easy to repeat the process for the rest of them. Here's a list of seven of the most vulnerable smart devices in your home, and the steps you can take to make sure they're more secure than they are right now.
1. Wi-Fi routers
Number one with a bullet. Routers are often left on default settings and then forgotten about, and they are a point of entry for hackers far, far too often. Once a Wi-Fi router has b