Turris Security report 2022/12

Turris Academy no.6 - PaKon for parents - 13.07.2021 at 5PM with Radovan Hosek
Join the stream: https://lnkd.in/epSm-7z

Our Sales Manager Radovan Hosek will introduce PaKon, a part of the security stack on Turris routers. In our previous Turris Academy sessions were covered several topic: unboxing, secure connection via OpenVPN, WireGuard and others.
Now it’s a time to show another feature this time focusing on security - PaKon.

In Radovan's own words:

"This session will show a device connectivity monitoring service - PaKon.
Admin of Turris router can see and check time, date and data transmission of any device connected to Turris router. This can be an application case from real life, let’s call it family device monitoring in my case.

I’m a father of 2 boys (8 &12 years old). During COVID-19 country lock down they had online education for many weeks. But – what did they do on internet during school hours? PaKon gave me an answer. For sure, there is a strong privacy for device/user as well."

Our colleagues Radek, Frantisek and Lucie are right now setting up Turris booth at Barcelona's Mobile World Congress. We participate at the event section dedicated to innovative technologies and young companies which is called 4YFN - 4 Years From Now.

If you are at MWC/4YFN 2021 come and say hi. For the rest, just follow us on social media (Twitter) for regular updates and to enjoy the atmosphere of the first international face-to-face event of this year!

Mobile World Congress and 4YFN is the biggest global gathering of innovators and large corporations from the world of connectivity and mobile tech industry. This year's event is unique in a way that it allows for physical as well as online participation. 4YFN exhibition features hundreds of companies from across the globe from all facets of the tech industry. Main goal is to showcase, connect with partners or investors or fellow innovators.

4YFN always runs programs shining spotlight on startups and innovation in strategic areas like Connectivity, Digital Health, Fintech, Impact.

The city of Bohumin needed to solve the challenge of providing stable and secure connectivity with high data throughput in the city library, sport, and relax areas called Bospor.

Mr. Jiří Rozsypal, Information Technology Administrator from the Bohumín Municipal Office says: „We are using Turris routers for many years now and since 2020, the latest model of Turris Omnia. It does exactly what we need. They are based on open-source software and manufactured and developed in the Czech Republic. As a part of our long-term cooperation, we are sending our tips and ideas to the Turris team to improve and expand the functionalities.

Thanks to the local support and broad configuration options, we implemented application scenarios and create network connections that were impossible to put in place with other products of a comparable price category.

These were one of the many reasons why we‘ve chosen the Turris router platform. With slight exaggeration, one could say that because of Turris' continuous and ubiquitous updates, we have a new router every month. Thus, we are saving public finances, our time, and effort."

At Turris, we work hard to release firmware updates, including enhancements, security updates, and new features almost every month. Security …

In the newly released Turris OS 5.2 version, you can find Overview after logging in to web interface reForis. It provides you easily recognized status about the activated services for automatic updates, data collection, dynamic firewall, test for Internet connectivity, speed test using Netmetr.cz, and added list of OpenVPN clients to any OpenVPN servers. Based on the community feedback, we prepared for you the requested missing features in reForis. Since this release, you can see the Storage tab, the possibility of doing a factory reset from the UI and adding a registration token to use Honeypot as a Service. Some of these features were missing from an old web interface or fur previous major version of Turris OS.

More details can be found on the blog of CZ.NIC employees.

Turris Zero firewall with 100% lifetime security warranty

Turris Zero is a unique device, and thanks to its 100% secure firewall, it automatically keeps your network safe against all Internet threats and against the Internet itself. As the Internet is, most of the time, a source of negative feelings and emotions. It provides a lifetime guarantee and automatic updates for free.

Turris Zero protects you against all current and future threats in a few decades. The user interface with a fingerprint sensor hidden inside the Turris logo is intuitive. It includes automatically hidden WAN and LAN ports on shorter edges of the case. Every household member 5-99 years old would be able to setup this device. You can let both a child or an active elder of your family to configure this secure firewall for you. The administration interface is designed entirely autonomous and unattended. You don’t need to log in anywhere. Also, you don’t need to remember any useless credentials.

Turris Zero is entirely open-source, of course. It runs the unique operating system Turris OS 0.0 on completely open hardware, which you can modify and combine as you like it. For example, you can connect these two firewalls behind …

Second live stream from Turris Academy series was screened at 31st March. Topic of this lecture was virtual private networks (aka VPNs) and OpenVPN usage on Turris devices.

Recorded stream is available at our YouTube channel.

Turris routers provide high-quality and secure Wi-Fi connections for visitors in Kingdom of Railways at Prague. We have installed a complete Wi-Fi network for all railway model fans in cooperation with Stelio s.r.o. company, which operates this service for Království železnic a.s. Turris Omnia provides a gateway to the Internet, and Turris MOX with external antennas takes role of Wi-Fi access points. 285 cables and 54 external antennas are needed to interconnect whole network setup. All Turris devices are ready and waiting for visitors.

You can view a video from the network installation on our YouTube channel.

The online conference InstallFest 2021 took place on Sunday 6.3.2021. Our colleagues attended this conference with their lectures and as well with a virtual booth for persons interested in Turris devices.

Michal Hrušecký introduced new features in prepared Turris OS 5.2 release. Martin Prudek presented aspects of Influx DB and its potential in Turris Sentinel network threats detection system. And finally, Karel Kočí shared his experiences with Gentoo distribution usage for both work and private.

Recordings of these lectures (Czech only currently) are available on YouTube, and we have prepared a short playlist of Turris related lectures.

Turris launches an online course called Turris Academy. You can look forward to streaming examples, manuals, and lectures about Turris devices and software.

The content of the first lecture was unboxing and the initial setup of Turris Omnia router. A recording of this first session is available on our YouTube channel.

Our hot news, which we introduced this week, offers internet users a unique way to secure all the devices connected to their home network. You do not have to be an IT expert or professional network admin to use Turris Shield. The only thing you need to do is to plug in the new Turris in front of your Wi-Fi router which secures your entire household or office.

More information on Turrisu Shield can be found at product website. You can also read more in our press release about the new Turris that we have published. And one more note — Turris Shield is sold on European Amazon for € 99.

Turris OS 5.1 is based on top of OpenWrt 19.07 with our feed and few patches. It supports Turris Omnia, Turris MOX and Turris Shield. There is also an experimental support for Turris 1.x routers.

This release contains new configuration frontend named reForis and several tabs in Foris were deprecated in favor of reForis. In reForis you can find more detailed package selection as well as basic integration of Turris Sentinel.

New features:

• Introduced new data collection system Sentinel
• reForis (future default web interface)
  • Now installed by default
  • Added NetMetr, OpenVPN client and remote devices plugins
• Package lists
  • Expanded with labels and additional options
  • Added option to select alternative WiFi drivers
• Nextcloud updated to version 18