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ASUS warns of critical remote authentication bypass on 7 routers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 63 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Never turn on remote admin. You don't need to admin your router from outside of your house.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

And if you absolutely do. Set up a VPN.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I heard that a while ago many VPN services were bought by the very people you use a VPN to protect against. How do you know which ones are safe?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I believe they mean setting up a VPN on your network, rather than buying a service from a VPN provider.

Something like Wireguard lets you configure individual devices to access your network remotely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yup, I did that last week and it's pretty easy. Basically:

  1. Set up a VPS and configure wireguard
  2. Set up your computer to connect to it (or your router if you literally only want remote admin); you'll probably want to configure persistent connections
  3. Set up your phone to connect to it
  4. Test it at work sometime to make sure it all works

I do it in two hops: connect to VPS then to internal computer. There are other configurations (e.g. talk to peer computers directly), but this works well for me.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This would be self hosted so you can access your own internal network. Wireguard on OpenVPN are your best options there, personally I use wireguard/pivpn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Pivpn was discontinued just a heads up. I switched to just plain wireguard when I heard the news.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

The way to tell which ones are safe is to look up legal history for each company. When the home country of the company demands all the data they have, the companies are going to give all the data they have. So if a court order of a VPN yields nothing or almost nothing, then you know they really don't save any logs.

As someone else mentioned already, proton and mullvad are the good ones in, but that can change if either company gets bought out or changes management etc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

proton and mullvad are the privacy focused choices, but you are still just trusting a third party to be pinky promise to keep no logs etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yes vpn all the way.

I use remote access software for my PC and VPN is the only way I can be safe.