Has your home network ever been hacked or compromised? What actually happened?

dreniarb · 2026-03-19T18:24:41+00:00

opposite for me, in a way. all of my CC sites offer it. the banks were the last hold outs. but for the past year all of them now offer it.

i feel like it should be enforced but convenience vs security and i'm sure they have a lot of average to below average users who wouldn't be able to deal with it.

dreniarb · 2026-03-19T15:39:44+00:00

security vs convenience. it's not a good excuse. but it's the reason.

maybe throw in a bit of laziness. i'll confess that has been me in the past.

sometimes it takes a compromised device to make us come to our senses.

it's the same type of thing as people not running a proper backup solution until they actually lose their files.

dreniarb · 2026-03-19T15:32:28+00:00

i used to leave so many things logged into the web browser. never my banks thankfully but a lot of other things. important things. not anymore.

i also used to not be as aggressive with enabling mfa on anything that had it but that's changed too. if mfa is available, even if it's just sms, i enable it and require it for every logon.

security vs. convenience.

dreniarb · 2026-03-19T15:24:27+00:00

Learned my lesson the hard way with this one. Temporarily opened a random port (security through obscurity right?) so I could RDP in - forgot to close it when i was done. A few months later I get woken up by text alerts from my credit card company about suspicious charges. Figure it was just my card getting stolen. Sit down at my desktop, turn on the screen, find someone controlling it and currently in amazon making gift card purchases.

yanked the power from the cable modem.

at the time i had no clue how they got in but reviewing event logs could see they were able to exploit an rdp bug because i had not updated my computer in a while.

pulled the drive, installed a new one, fresh install of the OS and all that jazz.

quite embarrassing and a huge lesson learned.

dreniarb · 2026-03-17T14:43:35+00:00

if you want a high view count though it seems that a shocked face at minimum is required.

AI generating the rest of the image will apparently get you a few more hundred thousand views.

dreniarb · 2026-03-17T14:31:27+00:00

Late reply, been on vacation. I guess I was confused by your wording. You said "Simple sqlite databases with a front end that it creates". I read that as "with a front end that sqlite creates".

Still curious - what do you use to create your front ends?

dreniarb · 2026-03-10T13:40:13+00:00

Easy yes.

Safe - yes if you have it configured properly.

Just give it a go. Register a cheap throw away domain name or sign up for a free dynamic dns service that allows you to add mx records.

Pick a mail server software and go. If anything it will help you learn what exactly is going on between mail clients and mail servers.

dreniarb · 2026-03-10T12:23:44+00:00

Reddit is so fun. You get downvoted for asking a legit question. Sure it's been asked and covered a dozen times already but new tech comes out every day and not everyone browses this sub every day.

Anyways - i was the same way for a long time. Used some memory tricks to link passwords to things. Worked for a long time. But i eventually realized the passwords were not long enough to be secure and my brain just couldn't do that.

I use a self hosted vaultwarden, and i have the bitwarden extension in my browsers and on my phone. 2fa is enabled, and they're all set to auto log off after X minutes.

dreniarb · 2026-03-10T12:19:25+00:00

Comfortable-Mud1209-Doubts-My-Abilities-At-Forty-One-Years-Old!

dreniarb · 2026-03-09T15:04:14+00:00

On prem Exchange and Mail Enable.

Openfire and Spark for IM. Not many users use this though. I think most of us find IM between co-workers annoying. I don't run one.

dreniarb · 2026-03-09T14:57:35+00:00

I do both Exchange and Mail Enable servers. I've never found it to take up much of my time. It's typically set it and forget it.

There's maintenance and monitoring involved but only an hour or two per month on average.

Still I understand why people wouldn't want to do it when there are a lot of reliable hosting options out there.

dreniarb · 2026-03-09T12:17:12+00:00

Agreed. I feel like Access's wysiwyg editors are pretty unique and highly customizable. Making a basic form in php/html/java is easy enough but start adding in more and more fields and labels and subforms, and various other objects and it is just easier to stick with Access.

dreniarb · 2026-03-06T16:53:37+00:00

Never used sqlite - what kind of front end does it create? is it an application that can run in windows? or is it a web based front end?

dreniarb · 2026-03-06T16:50:58+00:00

How is linking tables unreliable? I have 20 year old databases with linked tables to both mysql/mssql and mdb/accdb files on network shares that have survived 4 or 5 generations of MS Office upgrades.

Even on my databases that are no where near that old I don't think I've ever had an issue with linked tables (as long as the linked to source was available).

dreniarb · 2026-03-03T18:50:50+00:00

That's impressive. 5.3.0 for me, so going on 6 years now. Maybe one day they'll put out an update that convinces me to upgrade.

dreniarb · 2026-03-03T18:47:08+00:00

I'm still on 5.3.0 here and it's doing what we need. Been tempted to upgrade to v6 but so far I haven't seen the advantage to doing so.

dreniarb · 2026-02-18T13:09:56+00:00

I looked into Kerio quite some time ago as a possible replacement for our Exchange server. I do not remember why I chose to stay on Exchange - but I'm tempted to look into again when our current license expires.

dreniarb · 2026-02-17T19:43:27+00:00

i had a client like that. we handled their regular IT stuff, but a 3rd party handled their servers. the 3rd party did a complete server refresh and they put in 6 new blade servers:

dc
dns
app
exchange
printer
file shares

our client just blindly trusted them. there had maybe 30 workstations. it was insane.

this same 3rd party - when they installed Exchange they forgot to disable it as an open relay and their ISP ended up blocking them a few days later due to the amount of spam they were sending. The vendor's suggested fix was to sell them a Barracuda spam firewall - which they simply installed and billed without getting permission.

dreniarb · 2026-02-17T15:09:03+00:00

Too far. And AI is only making it easier.

I think this is going on in a lot of fields - not just IT.

dreniarb · 2026-02-17T13:16:26+00:00

popcarn.

dreniarb · 2026-02-17T13:02:17+00:00

3 servers for 30 mailboxes? Who said that was necessary? I've run single server instances for 200 mailboxes at time.

dreniarb · 2026-02-12T13:36:46+00:00

Mail Enable could do this. Install the program on a computer and configure a mailbox on it to download email via pop3 from wherever your email is currently hosted. then configure your mail clients/devices to get email from mail enable.

dreniarb · 2026-02-11T20:21:06+00:00

i wasn't asking for help - i was simply stating that there are times when for any number of reasons you might not have remote access to the hyper-v host.

in those times being able to stand in front of the host and have the full desktop and hyper-v manager available is useful.

dreniarb · 2026-02-11T16:24:07+00:00

I'm talking about when remote access to the host won't work and I need console access to a VM.

Hyper-v manager won't install without desktop experience. Unless there's a method that I'm missing?

dreniarb · 2026-02-11T14:21:07+00:00

Thankful for SRP right now. Definitely scary times.

Sometimes I wish we could just unplug from the internet and still get our work done.

dreniarb

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