Tag: firewall
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How to Harden a Home Telstra Modem Router
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Skinny Betty!” — From the movie Pearl Harbour. “Skinny Betty” is a fun social way to say that you want to apply a “principle of least privilege”, by keeping things minimal. In terms of a telstra router configuration, if you don’t need it, disable it. Connect to your modem via ethernet or…
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How to Add Phishing Blacklists to Your Linux DNS Resolver Firewall
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhy manage your own dns resolver? Australia is in the top ten of targeted countries according to this cybercx article https://cybercx.com.au/news/australia-one-of-the-top-ten-countries-targeted/ By managing your own resolver, you decide what gets blocked. There are free phishing lists openphish.com, and phishtank.com, you would want these as part of your dns block list. Throughout this…
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How to Add Country Blocking to Your Linux Firewall
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhy have a country blocking firewall? Australia is in the top ten of targeted countries according to this cybercx article https://cybercx.com.au/news/australia-one-of-the-top-ten-countries-targeted/ Sources of hacking come from China, Russia, and North Korea. By blocking these countries, we can disrupt a majority of the simple level attacks that do not try to mask their…