My dad has been under constant duress lately from seemingly unending spam calls. While he isn’t tech-illiterate, he could definitely use a boost in web security. Rather than buying an off-the-shelf consumer router, I decided to build a custom Unified Threat Management (UTM) system using an old laptop I had lying around. This project was the perfect opportunity to sharpen my networking and sysadmin skills while solving a real-world problem. My goal was to turn a retired laptop into a powerful...

Cisco Talos, Cisco’s threat intelligence team, published a report on February 20th 2025 that there was a widespread attack from a Chinese...

PowerSchool is a K-12 software suite that serves over 60 million students, 16,000 schools, and over 9 million teachers. Over 72 million...