security

Reolink RLC-520 Camera Review

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The Reolink RLC-520 is an affordable outdoor-suitable security camera built to withstand a harsh weather and, just like its predecessor, it offers a 5-megapixel resolution (2560x1920p), motion detection and night vision up to 100 feet. Indeed, the RLC-520 offers the same features as the RLC-410 (it’s pretty much identical regarding the internal hardware), but it … Read more

GateKeeper Halberd Security Key Review

The GateKeeper Halberd is a portable security token that let’s you log into your computer simply by being in its proximity and to automatically log out when you’ve moved away from it by relying on the Bluetooth connection to perform the cryptographic key exchange with the receiver. This way, you don’t have to continuously log … Read more

Zyxel USG Flex 100 Firewall Review

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The Zyxel USG Flex 100 is the entry-level security firewall gateway from the new USG Flex series and yes, it does have pretty much all the features of the older USG series, but Zyxel now relies a lot more on the Cloud Query service (that it has unveiled last year) to help deliver a better … Read more

Kensington VeriMark IT Fingerprint Key Review

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The Kensington VeriMark IT fingerprint key is a small USB biometric authentication device with built-in anti-spoofing techniques and which relies on a match-in sensor to ensure that the fingerprint image remains within the sensor (‘off the grid’), therefore reducing (close to zero) the risk of any security breaches and the beauty of this device is … Read more

How To Set Up Parental Controls On A Linksys Router

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The Parental Controls are a very important part of every router which assume the role of filtering the content that all the members of the family can access (blocking adult or malicious websites), as well as when the Internet connection will be enabled (so your children won’t stay up too late on schooldays). The Parental … Read more

Tenvis TH661 IP Camera Review

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The Tenvis IP camera is an indoor-suitable surveillance device built to offer both daylight and low-light live footage of your home directly to your computer or mobile device. Of course, it isn’t intended to be a replacement to a more mature security system which can be installed at the office, but to simply add a … Read more

SecureDrive BT SSD Review

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The SecureDrive BT is an external hardware-encrypted storage device that relies on the wireless authentication technology instead of the physical embedded keypad and which makes it the first of its kind (along with the SecureUSB BT flash drive that was also unveiled at the beginning of this year at CES) and which poses the question … Read more

How To Cascade Routers To Isolate Your IoT Devices

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In this article we’re going to explore some of the most common methods of cascading routers in order to isolate your smart devices from the rest of the network. The reason why you’ll want to keep your IoT devices isolated is because most manufacturers care little or not at all about implementing some type of … Read more

How To Install OpenWRT On A Linksys Router

Very recently Linksys went under fire because of an info disclosure exploit which seems to affect around 20,000 devices and, since the manufacturer has yet to release a patch for its affected models, the only solution, so far, is to flash the routers with a custom firmware, such as OpenWRT (Project LEDE). If you want … Read more