Posts by Michael345

Sure, we made your Wi-Fi routers phone home with telemetry, says Ubiquiti. What of it?

Re: If you're upset at Ubiquiti

I have tested Peplink routers and they do NOT phone home.

Also tested a Synology RT2600ac and it phones home ALL the time. See the Spying on the Router section here https://www.routersecurity.org/synology.php

The wheel turns slowly, but it turns: Feds emit IoT security tip sheet

better advice

Better advice is at RouterSecurity.org.

Block unknown IP address in the firewall? What does that even mean.

Much IoT security is really router security. Disable UPnP and NAT-PMP to block devices from opening holes in the firewall. Test the router firewall yourself to see if there are open ports (aka holes).

The FBI is right that IoT devices should be isolated, another router issue. Of course, they offer no help in doing so - or even a warning that many routers can not do this.

Microsoft finally says adios to Autorun

Not pushing this via Windows Update

Microsoft is NOT pushing this update via Windows Update. To XP users at least, it is an *optional* update so it still needs to be manually requested.

This article has more

http://blogs.computerworld.com/17808/windows_autorun_microsoft_is_wrong_computerworld_is_right