privacy

Taipei, Taiwan — March 25, 2026 — Synology today announced a new privacy-first home monitoring experience for BeeStation Plus, enabling users to monit Continue reading... - - - Source: synology.com

I've just been playing around with encrypted folders.. Assume I put a bounch of files in an encrypted folder.. At a later date, I sell the harddrive without formatting it. What's the chance of someone recovering these encrypted files later?

I use Download Station on one of my Diskstations. I do not run any bittorrent application on any other device. That particular Diskstation has an always-on VPN using the Diskstation's built-in VPN client. It is always connected to Torguard. The firewall in the RT2600 is set so that all...

Hi, I have read a few posts on this but have not found an answer. What I would like to do is to secure the nas traffic with a vpn. I am using Nordvpn. The challenge is that Nord does not provide port forwarding, which is essential for remote access. I have tried putting the vpn client on the...

I use Synology photos for work and allow the models to post them on my nas. I have seen on some websites the ability to lock a photo so it can't be copied or screen captured. I talked to Synology and they currently don't have this ability in photos and probably won't. Is anyone aware of a way to...

Generative AI (GenAI) tools are revolutionizing businesses operations, offering the ability to rapidly boost efficiency and solve complex problems. However, this exciting potential comes with a significant challenge: data privacy. In March, a Korean conglomerate lifted a ban on the use of GenAI...

Hi, I have setup Active Backup for Google Workspace to backup our company emails and files. It took me a few weeks to realize that any DSM admin could export any email or any file from our Google Workspace. I have DSM users that are admins because they need to create users etc. on the Synology...

Recent media attention has been drawn to issues surrounding privacy and security among security cameras, with a major vendor exposed to have glaring security flaws as well as not living up to their privacy claims. In this article I will clarify how our surveillance solutions ensure the privacy...

Synology Surveillance Station 9.0 – Everything New that is Coming Many users who purchase a Synology NAS hardware solution, do so because of the wide variety of software services that are included with it. Although Diskstation Manager has a large number of key applications that range from file...

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I'm wondering if there are any privacy issues with Active Insight? It seems like a lot of access is given to our data in order to make it happen.

Swiss courts compelled it to log and disclose a user's IP and browser fingerprint. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/privacy-focused-protonmail-provided-a-users-ip-address-to-authorities/?comments=1

When it comes to keeping your personal information secure, don’t take anyone at their word — use encryption. Since the first Data Privacy Day back in 2007, online privacy threats have multiplied. On top of more traditional threats like phishing — which has been around since at least the early...

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Here in Windows Core Networking, we’re interested in keeping your traffic as private as possible, as well as fast and reliable. While there are many ways we can and do approach user privacy on the wire, today we’d like to talk about encrypted DNS. Why? Basically, because supporting encrypted DNS...