Maintaining the security of our router as high as possible is essential to prevent hackers from accessing our local network, stealing information and compromising our computers. Although usually routers are usually protected against such threats, it is always advisable to check manually to ensure that there is no security breach that can allow unauthorized access by a hacker to our network.
To check the security of our router we will use an Android app called RouterCheck . This application is very simple to use, it is distributed completely free of charge and without advertising and it will allow us to analyze the different elements of our router automatically and it will show us information about those points that may be vulnerable to a possible attack.
We can download this application for free from the Play Store.
Download RouterCheck
Developer: Sericon Technology Inc.
Price: Free
Once downloaded and installed the application on our smartphone we execute it. The first thing we will see will be a simple graphical interface like the following one.
As we can see in the interface of the program we have several buttons. The one that interests us most is the first one called "Check My Router". We click on it and a message will appear asking us to make sure that we have permission from the owner of the network to run the test.
If we have it, we accept the window and will comment on the evidence.
We wait for the process to finish (it takes a few minutes) and once finished we can see a summary with the results of the analysis.
Here we can see all the aspects that have been checked and if any of them is vulnerable to possible attacks (red) or is safe (green).
If we click on any entry we can see a summary of it where we will explain what the program has done, what can happen if it is vulnerable and how to protect that section correctly.
With this simple application we will be able to check if our router is vulnerable to any known security flaw that can allow hackers to attack our system or, otherwise, if we are protected from possible attacks that seek to exploit security failures in the router itself .
