Surely you have been advised in various Facebook or Reddit groups to change ports 5000 and 5001 on your Synology NAS for security reasons, so that hackers don’t know which are your Synology NAS entry ports. If you have set the firewall following my easy step by step guide and have chosen a strong password … Read more about How to Change Synology DSM ports 5000 and 5001
A few days ago I accidentally overwrote my previous SHA key in my computer and, when I tried to connect to my Synology NAS using ssh, I got this message below in my Terminal Client: @ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY! Someone could be … Read more about WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED
Did you ever come across this message when you were setting up the Firewall on your Synology NAS: “Your computer has been blocked by the new firewall configuration. The firewall configuration has been reset to the previous state. Please make sure that no rule is blocking your computer and try again.”? If you have received … Read more about Synology: Your Computer Has Been Blocked
I have come to realize that a lot of new Synology NAS users don’t know how to activate the HTTPS protocol. Are you tired of seeing your connection to your Synology NAS in the Chrome address bar is not secure? In the step by step guide I will try to explain to you how to … Read more about How Do I Enable HTTPS on My Synology NAS?
Depends on the NAS, the virus, and the computers being used. If the NAS is based on Windows, the virus would only have to get activated on the NAS for it to be able to do damage (it can potentially be activated via some SMB vulnerability, or via a malignant email). And once activated, it … Read more about What Can a Virus Do On a Synology NAS Drive?
When configuring my firewall on Synology NAS I found it useful to have a quick way to check if the ports I was working with were open or closed. Few people know that an application called PowerShell is included in Windows 10 (by default). Thanks to the command called Test Net Connection (TNC), we can … Read more about Synology: Scanning NAS Ports Using Windows 10