Public port forwarding on firewall?

[robertsig]

I've been running a standard port forward (with SSL) on my firewall for years and never had a breach, I solely use this for the iOS app. It seems a strong password and the Auto-ban has been sufficient enough.

Has anyone had a problem with hackers?

 

[Bruce_H]

I have never been hacked on my bi system, but I stopped using port forwarding quite a few years ago, because I got tired of the non stop port scanning that was happening, they can't detect an open port if there is not one!
I use OpenVPN to allow connections to UI3 and to do remote desktop connections to the BI PC.

 

[alastairstevenson]

Does the firewall log the probes and access attempts against the port? Any interesting exploit attempts?

 

[robertsig]

There are always probes, against this port and others. It's the nature of the game. I haven't seen a single login attempt outside of me though.

 

[Techie007L]

I've been running a standard port forward (with SSL) on my firewall for years and never had a breach, I solely use this for the iOS app. It seems a strong password and the Auto-ban has been sufficient enough.

Has anyone had a problem with hackers?

No, I have not; over a decade using and installing Blue Iris, many sites.

Does the firewall log the probes and access attempts against the port? Any interesting exploit attempts?

Only if you enable the option to (Blue Iris -> Settings -> Webserver -> [Advanced] -> Log ALL connections, not just logins).

 

[mat200]

I've been running a standard port forward (with SSL) on my firewall for years and never had a breach, I solely use this for the iOS app. It seems a strong password and the Auto-ban has been sufficient enough.

Has anyone had a problem with hackers?

The threat levels are getting even higher now with AI assisted attacks .. thus I would NOT port forward anymore, the risk is too high now.

Most certainly look at VPN server running on your kit instead

 

[robertsig]

I'll move to Wireguard. thanks everyone.

 

[bigredfish]

I’ve found Wireguard to be much faster than OpenVPN