First, what is a bogon address? In short, a bogon is an invalid address for passing traffic on the global Internet. They're often used by bad guys to start malicious flows or by good guys on private networks. From the…
From Mario Dujmovic, CTO at RemoteWinBox: Last Christmas I had a chance to go to Croatia and visit my family. While I was busy gaining 10lbs and hanging out with my family, some thieves were apparently busy jumping the fence…
What’s the problem? Cybercriminals will make use of every trick in the book to accomplish their goals. When the bad guys want to do bad things on computer networks, they have to send data over the network. Often times in…
Many times we received emails from our customers asking to add an IP address to their Allowed IPs list. We wanted to know why, how the use case looks like, and how can we accommodate it! We found out that…
Quick walk-thru of the security updates released on RemoteWinBox and Admiral dashboard. RemoteWinBox now scans for Meris exploit on MikroTik routers and displays indicators in the dashboard. https://youtu.be/P3RoHXXKbgk
In this blog post we highlight some of the most frequently asked support questions! What are some ways I can use Fleet Commander? Ping or Traceroute to a host, such as google or 8.8.8.8 to ensure and verify traffic is…
Welcome to our 3rd installment of security best practices. Today we'll take a look at port knocking and service ports. If you missed part 1 and 2, you can find them here: Security best practices, part 1Security best practices, part…
Welcome to part 2 of our security best practices series. In this article we'll go over usernames and passwords and Virtual Private Networking. In case you missed part 1, find it here: Usernames and Passwords You’ve probably heard it a…
With all of the scrutiny that we’re seeing on security right now, we thought it would be a good idea to share some security principles, tips, and tricks that are best practices. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be talking…
We listened to your feedback and have extended our software with RWB Backups Manager. With RWB Backups Manager enabled, our service takes once daily backups for all of your MikroTik hardware that has a subscription with RemoteWinBox. If you’ve ever…
We recently moved the allowed IP Address list to the Security page.This page displays the IP Address list that is tracked in our system to allow access to your MikroTiks listed in the dashboard.If you remove your IP at your…
We’ve had a few questions recently regarding the security of RemoteWinbox and we thought we should make a blog post and FAQ to to help explain how we’ve approached security for our service and users. Firewalls for serversOnly ports that…
Some of our customers have reported that they have had problems with WinBox not connecting. We discovered it was a problem with older versions of Winbox. Please make sure you are using the latest version of WinBox. Find the latest…