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?

  • domanpanda@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Even if your login page is not easy to break, it will be indexed by robots or hackes in their list. And they will test on it every vulnerability that will be published for any DSM component. Using VPNs like ZeroTier or Tailscale is definetly MUCH more secure than all of those tweaks and easier to setup too.

    But offcourse its YOUR data so … good luck :)