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| The Synology DS1513+ 5 Bay server (Image from UK Hardware) |
The Synology small format servers have proved to be pretty awesome devices, allowing for hybrid RAID disk configurations and many enterprise server grade functions by means of downloadable apps.
Recently we had a Synology DS1513+ server that had developed a glitch. Read more
The number of private home routers being duped into living a secret life as part of a botnet or in serving up malicious DNS results to its users has seen a surge in the latter half of 2016. It’s thought that the majority of traffic in the DDoS attack on various gaming servers in Christmas 2015 was generated from home routers that had been compromised.
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Several new exploits have been identified recently that are designed to attach your home or business router from inside, and install code to allow hackers to open a backdoor to your network and your data.
The exploits are designed to get into a network either by infecting devices that go outside of your firewall, such as mobiles, tablets and laptops, or by tricking the user into downloading a malicious file. Once inside the network, the malware gets to work on your firewall, attempting to inject code into the firewall that will allow external code to be added to innocent web pages. So you might be viewing the BBC site for example, and the code adds advertising and other unwanted scripts to the page as it passes through your firewall, meaning the page you see if very different from the one served up by the BBC servers. Read more