Security audits are often considered a big business practice and often include penetration testing 
and vulnerability assessments. While the scale is different, home networks also require proper auditing. Globally speaking, home networks make up a large percentage of all networked computers. This group of computers is connected to the internet and an active target for hackers, identity thieves, and bot network attackers.
With high-speed internet becoming more and more common, poorly secured home computers have become a hacker’s paradise. One popular goal of a malicious hacker is to turn your computer into a distributed denial of service tool. Once enough computers are under an attacker’s control, he can remotely tell all of them to bombard a specific target on the internet, effectively kicking the target offline. Often distributed denial of service attacks are used by organized crime gangs to extort money from victims. Security Reference Guide > Auditing Home Computer Networks, Part 1
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