How to Delete a Folder From File Station on a QNAP NAS
You may occasionally want to do some housekeeping on your QNAP NAS, and deleting folders may be a big part of it. Here's how to delete a folder from...
ExpressVPN Review: How Does It Perform (and How to Install) on Ubuntu?
ExpressVPN is considered one of the top-tier VPN products. We install it on Ubuntu 21.04 and use it from the command-line and from within a browser. How does it...
Diskashur M2 Secure SSD Review: IP68, FIPS 140-2 Level 3 (soon) and a Good...
iStorage's Diskashur M2 is stylish, stealthy and a pretty decent bargain as far as secure flash drives are concerned. More importantly, it's a good performer, and ticks all the...
Seagate IronWolf 510 Review: A Long-lived NVMe Caching SSD Specifically for NAS
Seagate's IronWolf 510 NVMe SSD is a fast reader with an excellent endurance rating, but it's a very slow, albeit hyper-steady writer. When I say slow, I'm talking less...
What is Whistleblowing, and How to Remain Anonymous
Whistleblowing is a catch-all term for disclosing wrongdoing in an organization. Not everyone will agree it’s for the greater good, so to be safe you need to be anonymous....
What is RAID? Everything You Need to Know
RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks (or Inexpensive Disks, depending on the source) and is combining multiple physical disks to appear and act as a...
How to Protect Yourself From Invasive Network Security
Know that thing connected to your broadband master socket? It’s got the Wi-Fi key on it---you reboot it when your broadband dies. Your router is the most important electronic...
How to Set Up and Get Started with a QNAP NAS
QNAP made their NAS products as user-friendly as possible, but the initial set up of the NAS can still be a bit intimidating for first-time users. Here's what you...
How to Set Up TrueNAS CORE and Connect to it From Ubuntu
TrueNAS CORE is a class-leading network-attached storage system. It's fantastic but can be overwhelming. Here's how to get a basic setup configured and running, and how to connect to...
TrueNAS vs. FreeNAS: What is the Difference?
Alas, dear reader, the title of this article is a bit misleading. There is no longer a NAS operating system named FreeNAS, nor one named simply TrueNAS. They exist...
The Vulnerabilities of Electronic Voting Systems
Electronic voting systems must perform one of the toughest jobs on the planet. It’s not counting votes. That’s easy. The toughest part is convincing people that the results are...
Five Great Free Security Tools You Should Check Out
As important as it is, cybersecurity is still constrained by budget. Thankfully there are some fantastic free tools that you can add to your cybersecurity arsenal to help you...
What is Endpoint Security?
Network endpoints are computers, laptops, and mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones. If the threat actors compromise your endpoint, they have access to the network. Here’s how to...