Can someone please explain to me, a casual home user, why it's dangerous to expose my NAS login page to the internet?... - eviltoast

…without snark or jumping down my throat. I genuinely want to know why it’s so unsafe.

I’m running a Synology DS920+, with my DSM login exposed through a Cloudflare tunnel. I have 2FA enabled, Synology firewall enabled with these rules in place. I also have this IP blocklist enabled.

After all of this, how would someone be able to break in via the DSM login?

  • safely_beyond_redemp@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    For one thing, it announces to the internet that your device is there. If there is one thing you could do to make it easy on a hacker it is to tell them what and where to hack. There might not be any complete exploits today, but there will be tomorrow, and when it happens, there will be a race between you and the bad guy to either patch or exploit. Are you updating often enough to protect your device from any possible random point in time in the future? If you have nothing to lose, don’t worry about it, but most people store things they feel are worth storing.