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DNS-323 as rsync backup server? Yes! My situation: I have a Synology DS216+II NAS with a lot of important data on it, and I have an old D-Link DNS-323 standing around doing nothing, because well... it's

The vulnerability is in the WPA2 protocol used to protect home and institutional wireless networks. Researchers have discovered a serious loophole in the wpa2 protocol, a common security protocol used

Is your HDD listening to you? I stumbled on a very interesting post recently talking about a new piece of research done by Alfredo Ortega revealed at a the Ekoparty security conference in Buenos Aires,

source How (not) to lose your crypto I have been reading a lot of articles here on Steemit. Even though there is a lot of good material around on the topic of how to keep your money safe, it still seems

This is the official Genesis Post for the POCKET token. If you wish to opt-in to the Pocket protocol and claim your initial stake of 1,000,001 POCKET tokens, all you need to do is resteem this post before

Here's a little cartoon that illustrates one of the common pitfalls we fall into when creating passwords. The good news is that it's possible to make a password that's much stronger and much easier to

500+ apps were found collecting data from Google Play devices using an undisclosed back door. The combined downloads of the 500+ apps are well over 100,000,000. Google responded quickly by removing the

So it seems... WCX is supposed to be a new low-cost crypto-currency comming up. If you register now, you can get 50 WCX for free. They also have a referral system: When a friend signs up using your unique

What do I do as a user if I encounter an account of someone that is just blatantly copy-pasting from all over the internet without ever giving links to his/her sources? Flag all the posts? Flame his/her

source In my recent review of the hardware wallet Digital Bitbox I was asked a question that prompted me to write this pretty long answer. Since I think this could be interesting to more people I repost

[source] Holy hell, this is crazy So I'm googling around looking for articles describing the technical differences between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash. Instead I find the post linked below, and it blows my

source What is a Digital Bitbox ? Like the title says, it's a hardware wallet. In contrast to your normal garden variety desktop- or mobile wallet, this little thing is completely offline, meaning the

Dear diary I guess, after everything that has happened, I‘m still not used to ‘being loved‘ by someone. Usually, I don‘t care about friends. I mean, I do care about my closest friends, but not the ones

Hi Steemers! Hope you're having a great weekend :) Following on from my latest video on two-factor authentication, the folks at Yubico were kind enough to send me out some YubiKeys to play with. I've put

It is generally easier to attack a system when you already have access to an account. And the more privileges the account has, the bigger the damage you can do. A privilege escalation attack is a threat!

Easy on Linux, hard on Windows? Well, actually not at all. I just came across this very nice post which basically explains it all. However, since I like things short and to the point, I'm going to shorten

source Goal The goal of this procedure is to set up a Yubikey 4 with a strong master key and three derived subkeys, one for authentication, one for encryption and one for signing. Generally keys can be

     Welcome back as this is another guide meant to keep you safe from online attacks. In today's lesson we will go over how to understand if a site is trustworthy, if it matters

A fake Yubikey next to the real one. Source: Motherboard          Two security researchers at the recent DEFCON conference have demonstrated that even hardware-based

This is going to be a short one. You know the problem of securing your NAS with an SSL certificate for some domain and then getting a warning from your browser if you want to access it directly via its