Recent Headlines Reveal Consumer Tech Vulnerabilities—Here's What to Do About It
In case you missed it, December 23, 2025, marked a critical deadline: new DJI drones will no longer receive FCC licensing for flight, effectively banning them from U.S. markets. Why? Because hackers might exploit them due to software backdoors. Meanwhile, TP-Link routers—controlling some 65% of American home networks—face similar scrutiny after Microsoft discovered thousands had been compromised into a massive botnet used by Chinese state-sponsored hackers for password attacks.
Both cases shared a troubling pattern: affordable consumer products with exploitable vulnerabilities are being leveraged as a means of infrastructure for sophisticated cyberattacks. Assuming you don't own a DJI drone or TP-Link router, then how might this affect you? If a drone or router can be weaponized, what about the cameras, smart lighting, and entertainment systems all connected through that same vulnerable network? This is why we say professional-grade network security isn’t really optional.
