Questions tagged [modem]

I watched a documentary where hackers entered a victim's house by pretending to be from the ISP and then connected a box to a router in order to spy on all of the victim's traffic. Later, the hackers retrieved many passwords, e.g., iCloud and Gmail…

I am using an ISP provided router in bridge mode with my own router. Where is the risk of getting hacked? Can my ISP provided router in bridge mode (=modem) be hacked? Can it get firmware updates when in bridge mode?

I saw this post but it focused more on Linux. It sounds to me that the main thing that makes using a router more secure is the fact that it blocks any inbound stuff, which sounds simple enough to set up on the PC itself, but I don't know how to do…