Microsoft is going to deploy the “New Outlook” with Windows February security update. Why Microsoft is going to deploy an application with an OS security update? Because the “New Outlook” gives Microsoft full access to your email, whatever email service you are using. “New Outook” is not a full email client. It doesn’t “speak” SMTP, […]
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DNS for home networks
In very simple terms, a Domain Name Service (DNS), is a service that turns specific network names (host names, service names) into IP addresses. It allows to use mnemonic names (mypc.example.com) instead of IP addresses (192.168.121.234) accessing internal network resources. There are several advantages in using DNS names instead of IP addresses directly: One simple […]
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VLANs for home networks
Home networks are becoming increasingly complex, and security threats as well. Once they were used mostly for personal communications, and entertainment. Now work at home, home automation, and more and more complex tasks performed online at different security levels make simple flat networks inadequate, especially form a security perspective. Does it really make sense that […]
Protecting connections with TLS requires the proper certificate/private key pairs, that need to be issued by a trusted Certificate Authority. You can buy certificates form several public CAs, or obtain free ones form entities like Let’s Encrypt. Sometimes you may need your own private CA and certificates for systems that do not need to be […]