Recently, Synology added a new check to "Security Advisor" that would generate a warning if it found the default "admin" account still enabled. That is accompanied by a recommendation to create another equivalent account, log in using that account and disable the admin account. Doing so eliminates one of the attack vectors as the default [...]
Just wanted to do a quick post on how easy it is to move an existing Synology disk group to a different Synology device. I recently had to do that but the information available wasn't too clear, especially with regards to the safety of existing data etc. It started a few months ago when my [...]
My daughter has her own Wordpress.com blog where she posts articles about whatever she finds interesting. A few days back, she asked me if she could have a ISP-hosted Wordpress blog, as she now wants have more control over things like themes and plugins etc. Before investing any money into it, I wanted to see just how [...]
I happen to have two Synology boxes in my lab (DS213+ and DS412+) and I try to keep them updated as much as I can. Recently, DSM 5.1 was released which applies to both of them so this weekend, I took a few minutes to update both of my devices. DSM 5.1 brings a lot [...]