Question about hitting 10,000 blocked threats in one week on my home network

I run a basic firewall setup at home, nothing fancy, just a router with some security features turned on. Last Tuesday I checked the logs and saw it had blocked 10,000 suspicious connection attempts in seven days. That number seemed high to me for a regular house with three devices. On one hand, maybe most of those are just random background noise that doesn't matter. But on the other hand, if even a few were real attacks, isn't that proof that everyone needs basic protection? Has anyone else checked their logs and found a similar number, or am I just unlucky with my ISP?

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king.aaron1mo ago

My neighbor Dave once bragged about his "military grade" home security setup and then got hacked through his smart fridge of all things. Point is, 10,000 blocks in a week sounds about right in today's world. My own router logs show around 1,500 a day on a good week and I only have two phones and a laptop on it. Most of it is just bots scanning for easy targets, but that's exactly why having basic protection matters. You ever notice how these numbers jumped after those big IoT botnet attacks a few years back?

jessica8411mo ago

Oh totally, I just unplugged my smart stuff and that helped a ton.