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

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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...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?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The NAS runs its own OS and is just as vulnerable as a desktop or smartphones. They’re all computers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yes, but the other computers I listed have a person behind them that will click things. Like a "close" button that actually installs malware. A NAS does not click things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

True, but, what if you host VMs on the NAS? Or data for some application? Those can result in an attacker running code on them, and from there, in most homelab networks, i assume is a short way from owning everything in your network

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

When you turn your NAS into a hosting platform, it is no longer just a NAS.