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DoHNetwork SecurityWeb Privacy
DNS over HTTPS: things to consider when you go “private”
What it means for privacy, security, and parental controls, and whether there’s a way to have them all. The term “DNS over HTTPS (DoH)” has been hitting the headlines in the past month: Google announced its general availability in June, and in July, Mozilla was nominated for “2019 Internet Villains” by the UK Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA) for introducing DoH to Firefox (the nomination was later withdrawn due to a global outcry). This epitomizes how a new technology is disrupting existing implementations – but not just to ISPs and government agencies. Let’s take a look at what benefits DoH
IPSThreat Prevention
Building an intrusion prevention system for small businesses and homes
How a once enterprise-only technology was brought to Wi-Fi routers – and what challenges we have tackled. Once upon a time, we protected ourselves against cyber attacks by installing antivirus programs on computers. Then we entered the IoT era in which everything is connected – even baby monitors and video doorbells can be hacked. Tech-savvy users have long learned to set up firewall rules, but no matter how granular they are, the rules are static by nature. What if we can have automatic, network-wide protection that keeps itself up to date? This was the question we had in mind when
Networking
Home network security in the IoT era
The Internet is a double-edged sword According to Cisco Visual Network Index (VNI), there will be an average of 35 IoT devices in every household by 2020, which means people will have plenty of smart devices installed in their homes, such as smart locks, fridges, and TVs. While we enjoy the luxury technology brings, the Internet we use at home has become a sitting duck for hackers, causing more and more malicious attacks at the same time. On top of that, since devices we use are often connected under the same network, once a device has been attacked, hackers can