security

Hello, I use my home network which is connected to broadband internet connection for the purposes such as streaming, financial secured web accounts, insurance secured web accounts, and health secured web accounts. More recently it seems that the streaming services that I've used a VPN are now...

A family member recently got a letter from AT&T stating that their AT&T provided Pace 5268AC gateway will no longer receive firmware updates. The letter reads: "Don't worry! Your internet access and speed will not change. However, you will no longer receive the latest security patches...

Hi, Got an simple and easy question for you guys, what are the addons for optimal performance then best addons for security? Thanks

Hey all, I was curious about AsusWRT, and WPS. The toggle turns off when I set it to off, but there is a section in the configuration that still says enabled. Was curious if it's possible to fully disable WPS, or if this is just a glitch in the UI. Thanks - see attached screenshot. I have...

Hey guys, I was poking around and came across an old Security Now episode about the Three Dumb Routers concept. It seems as growing security threats increase, this would be a good configuration to consider. (especially with more smart devices onboard.) In my case, I have three routers I could...

Hey all, I was curious as to what the thoughts were of AIProtection vs the built in protection of the web browsers today. I did some reading of some older threads here regarding if people recommended AIprotection, and the main verdict was yes. However, those threads were a year to several years...

Hi, In order to upgrade my security I would like to enable Mac filtering to prevent unknown device from connecting to my network what ever they know my SSID and PSK. I dont like to change my PSK periodic. This would take a lot of time with 30plus devices. Is there a way to enable Mac...

I have an MBAM real time, which is a permanent licence - 10 years old — associated with one of the emails, which is no longer used except personal communications. I use a different email for shopping and a lot of them get forwarded via hide my IP. My AV is with bitdefender for 2 devices. It...

Asus and Asuswrt-Merlin have introduced encrypted passwords since 3.0.0.4.384_81790 and 384.17 firmware, which I appreciate, but I messed up a few days ago. I tried backing up all encrypted password hashes in nvram in ssh and re-writing to nvram, but I found that even though nvram didn't change...

It bothers me that ASUS routers do not provide an option in setup to prevent access to their Web management pages from the WAN. All routers I've used previously have done this, and often more, like preventing wireless login to the management pages and/or allowing only specified MAC addresses to...

I have lost my second PfSense router to another friend of mine for the 2nd time in as many years! Anyway, they were on an old hardware and I was planning an upgrade; because, we have starting planning a home-automation project. We want to lockdown the network before we do anything on this...

Asuswrt and Merlin usually have more frequent security updates than any soho routers on the market, but I have found that many forum members have reported malware in the past few years. some are in the form of scripts and some are binary files. because of the persistent jffs , malware and...

I have a wired LAN. Currently there is no wireless access to it. If I add a wireless access device to let mobile devices have access to the Internet. how can I ensure that any device connected to the wireless access device cannot access any resources on my LAN? They should be routed straight to...

I'm new to SNBforums, and I am a university student that have studied some networking and network security courses. I know some things about system hardening, VLANs, subnetting, security configurations to benchmarks/best practices and some more. Due to some unforeseen circumstances, I feel...

Hi guys, The security aspect is important and many people have more than 12 characters. In my case, I have more than 16 and I have to change the HTML attribute maxlength="16" to a higher value at each connection. It would be interesting to increase the password length to at least 20 characters...

I use a VPN service provider (similar to NordVPN etc), which offers port forwarding (opening ports). My understanding is that this is beneficial for some applications, such as BitTorrent. However, I am trying to understand what the functionality of opening ports actually accomplishes...

This evening, while trying to figure out why my kid can't play Dragonvale over Wifi, I discovered that DDNS was enabled on my router -- i had one of those asuscomm domain names assigned to me. Worse, Samba was turned on. I have two USB drives where I sftp restic and duplicity backups from a...

Hello everyone, Long time reader and first time poster here. First of all I would like to thank everyone contributing to the AsusWRT Merlin project. Much gratitude and respect, especially to Merlin himself! I have read time and time again that ASUSWRT's WebUI is not hardened enough to be...

Hello and the best of 2021 to everyone. I have recently moved to a new home in BC (Canada) and have brought all of my previous gear along. I have a fair bit of hardware accumulated over the years that can be incorporated into a more secured network design. However, I have not yet concluded on...

Hi, ASUS RT-AX88U, AUSWRT-Merlin 384.19. I installed QBitTorrent in a Container on my QNAP TS-253Be I'm certain I've set it up correctly and followed all instructions carefully. The Torrents I'm downloading have enough people seeding, but after I add a torrent it starts to download then...