security

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...

Hi all. I'm new here, so apologies if this is posted in the wrong place. I recently added a Synology NAS to my home network. It has a dedicated IP that is entirely detached from all my other network hardware. The NAS is used as a backup server for an identical unit at my business address and...

I found this as it does not really say enough other than running an old kernel in Linux is a problem. Probability they found a lot of old routers out there. https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/home-routers-are-all-broken-finds/

Any advice is very appreciated. Thanks for taking a look. I'm very lacking in what these things are actually saying, and I'm not too sure what to look for in the routers logs. I'm not even sure the two next images are related. (I don't have any device with an LAN IP 192.168.50.28) I'm...

I have a used Dell laptop and wonder if its possible to make that laptop to change everything. Mac adress i know you can change. But is it possible to change every other identifier on the computer that existed before I got it? And is it enough to just do format on the drives and windows...

This is a disaster. I have the FTP Share enabled with anonymous login, which should be no problem because I have "Enable WAN Access" disabled. Out of curiosity, I ran nmap on my WAN's IP address. The results: PORT STATE SERVICE 21/tcp open ftp 8200/tcp open trivnet1 (The DLNA server) I...

I'm into IoT and home automation, but I'm embarrassed to admit I've rather ignored the security aspects of my home network so far. I'd be really grateful for some guidance on the best direction to address this, especially if anyone thinks I might be wasting my time looking into building a NG...

TP-Link has announced HomeCare Pro powered by Avira, the second generation of the company's home network security solution. Not to be confused with the earlier iteration of TP-Link HomeCare, the new Pro version adds IoT device protection and parental controls. HomeCare Pro can identify new...

Need hub recommendations to use with older Amazon echo and app please I have if you smart plugs from Amazon that I use. I have a wyze camera separately. But I do want to add 2 wifi motion detectors and some door sensors. I need this to be compatible with the Alexa app and routines. It seems...

Hi, please vote and explain your choice and what you have implemented as an alternative. Thank you!

NETGEAR’s Nighthawk RS400 Cybersecurity Wi-Fi Router includes several security features, including anti-virus, anti-malware and data protection for all connected devices. Powered by Bitdefender, the RS400 is designed to protect a small network, protecting devices from malicious attacks and...

Looking for thoughts/opinions etc on this device that was recently recommended to me: Vektor: Secure WiFi Network & Connected Devices https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/vektor-secure-wifi-network-connected-devices/x/3536506#/ Developed by the Former Head of Facebook’s Security Tools team. Look...

I have isolated all my IoT devices on a separate wired guest network and on a separate wireless guest network. DHCP is turned on for those guest networks. Does it make sense to now, as an additional security measurement, log in to each IoT device and make its IP static and to set to the IP it...

Spectrum customers will be getting in-home protection and privacy services based on CUJO AI’s nextgen artificial intelligence platform. Details are scarce; however the new service is targeting Spectrum’s 24 million internet subscribers, providing a "personalized customer experience, offer...

I have a Auralic Aries music streamer connected (wirelessly and wired) to my home network and would like to "isolate" it's access to a NAS drive containing music files. I control the Aries through an iPhone and iPad app. I'm not quite sure how to do this or if it's even possible using my set...

Interesting papers about software safety in home routers. https://cyber-itl.org/2018/12/07/a-look-at-home-routers-and-linux-mips.html

So, if I'm using, say, a ProtonVPN server that has a dedicated IP, can I use Merlin-Wrt to block ALL IP addresses other than the Proton IP? And if I had some forwarded ports would this make the port forwarding more secure? Hope that makes sense. :-)