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Can someone please explain to me, a casual home user, why it's dangerous to expose my NAS login page to the internet?... (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by OneBreakfastPlease@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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...without snark or jumping down my throat. I genuinely want to know why it's so unsafe.

I'm running a Synology DS920+, with my DSM login exposed through a Cloudflare tunnel. I have 2FA enabled, Synology firewall enabled with these rules in place. I also have this IP blocklist enabled.

After all of this, how would someone be able to break in via the DSM login?

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[–] Urzu_X@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Running a service through a Cloudflare tunnel is not exactly the same as "exposing the service on internet". Its more towards a VPN/Overlay kinda approach and not exactly the same as forwarding ports and pointing DNS entries to actually "expose" your service on the wider internet (other users may feel free to correct me here). Still won't recommend this with any "sensitive data" but if all you have is a bunch of music and TV shows then you're good there. At the end it all depends on the level of security that you are willing to work with.