Home Network Security #1

You can’t be too careful when you’re running your shack from your home network.

So here you go, my Network Security Tip #1 for anyone with an Internet connection in the shack.

Don’t get hacked !

Here’s what to do if you find you have been ‘haxored’.

Change all your device and system passwords making sure that they’re all different and make them much bigger/longer with a mixture of symbols randomly arranged, avoid words or names which can be found in a dictionary… use two factor auth when ever you can and read your server logs on a regular basis,

I read mine pretty much everyday, try /var/log/apache2/ if you’re not sure where your webserver log is…

Webserver logs can be a mine of information but I’ll make that part of Tip #2