How about your kids?

In my house I have 3 kids, a wife and 30+ connected devices managed by a Linux firewall with fancy detection tools. The firewall does this:

• denies my kids internet between 0500-0900, 1200-1400 and after 1800 and filters all connections via 30+ detection tools( I work in IT security, its hobby too).

Limiting my kids internet(they are 11, 9 and 5) resulted in this:

• When they wake up, they say "Good morning Dad" and they talk to me, instead of zombieing on their devices;
• They know when restriction time starts and they are happy to become real: " Dad I have 30 minutes left on internet, please let me finish the "slime making video".

Bellow SIEM dashboard(ingest home firewall insights) shows one of my kid's Ipad, caught redirected to "imprsn dot com", being in red means alert severity is 10, or high confidence of compromise. Quick threat hunt confirmed they were redirected there by https://www.dhirubhai.net/redir/general-malware-page?url=cft%2enet, a mobile app distribution site.

These are the only security companies detecting this threat, last seen 22 minutes ago:

https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/994fa0f3cb524de230c82b644b1433249484990527699a56fa4cf032aaabca23/analysis/

My message is:

• only use Google Chrome because it stops 95% of the phishing attacks - better threat intel than any vendor;
• introduce daily restriction intervals, kids will appreciate that, evident by more laughter and sibling interactions.

I have been running DIY Linux firewalls in my house for the last 15 years and seen Google/Microsoft spying(5k events in 24 hrs per device), WIFI remote getting updates from malicious hosts, neighbors hacking my WIFI etc....

Limit your kids internet to maintain healthy emotions, do not use Telco provided routers/firewalls(easy to exploit) and educate your kids to use Google Chrome.