Security Risks of Port Forwarding

[@Pianodaddyy]

This teacher's personality constantly makes me chuckle 🤭

[@Pianodaddyy]

The knowledge this guy has though, gotta love it.

[@nathanwallace6204]

I would guess using a VPN to your home would be the best alternative to port forwarding. Let you access home devices and the data is still encrypted.

[@doctorhaines]

Exactly! I made a video showing how to implement VPN on a pfSense firewall, which allows you to access resources on your home network securely. kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZCYnIinhduLfpI

[@Kytrion]

@@doctorhaines I was looking for something like that :D

[@adriankomaromi5643]

I am constantly getting malicious GET requests that attempt to connect to phpmyadmin and trying to execute linux commands that remove every file from the root directory. Any ideas how I can implement a security system that blocks these malicious requests and blocks the IP addresses which try to attempt these requests?

[@fatayy]

enable whitelisting and allow only the IPs you will be connecting from

[@axMf3qTI]

I never open ports my laptop is in DMZ. Everything works and it's demilitarized. Not sure what that means but it sounds secure, probably military-grade encryption.

[@CallmeSins]

So is this bad for gaming as well?

[@W7K-35]

yes, sadly, if you want to port forward your ip for ur minecraft server for example, then u are taking a HUGE risk of being hacked from other ppl bc they can access through ur firewall onto ur pc and they can do whatever they want with ur pc. that means its better to use a portforwarding hosting website that has a secure DDOS protection, or else u would have to buy a DDOS protection for yourself which is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Expensive trust me, and making it yourself is crazzzy complicated

[@CallmeSins]

@@W7K-35 I play console only.. what are the risk there? Will Microsoft block them?

[@Sourav_Debnath]

​@@CallmeSins If you use that network/internet connection then if someone hack you that can do it on your Xbox only but if you run your other devices on the same network then they can hack those devices as well. Microsoft can't protect your other devices.

[@BitterSweet5950l]

8 minutes just to tell me to "call a professional" how empty --'

[@cwill6491]

I hate when things are hand waved away as have X do it for you

[@troyb4533]

Thanks for saving me 8 minutes dawg. Preciate it