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MC151
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Access hub 3 router logs

Not sure if this is the right board, apologies if it isn't.

Random issue here. I've lost access to my laptop which has some crucial websites I need for work. I accessed the sites a few months ago, would I be able to find them in admin mode from my router? The router is a hub 3 and I was using it in modem mode. I can't seem to find the logs though to show me what sites have been visited.

I hope this makes sense! Thanks for any help!

 
  • VM Hubs do not store any browsing history.  Your network would have to have something like a Syslog server or similar to record network traffic . 

  • Adduxi's avatar
    Adduxi
    Very Insightful Person

    The Hub logs do not record this information. Only circuit logs. 

  • Thanks for this, what are circuit logs and how can I access them please?

  • If you were using the VM hub in modem mode were you using it in combination with your own router? If so it might well have admin settings with web history. Put up the make and model number of the router on here if this is/was indeed your set up. 

    • MC151's avatar
      MC151
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      Yes I was using in with a Google nest router. So to clarify

      1) Does the VM hub 3 have any way of storing the websites I visited a few months ago? 

      2) Am I more likely to find that info from the nest?

      I'm not technically very savy, thanks for all your help!

      • Grey_Area's avatar
        Grey_Area
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        If you were logged in with a Google account when you used your old laptop these sites should be recorded there. From a Google webpage, I think the sequence is "Manage my Google account" and then "Manage my activity" or something similar.

  • Client62's avatar
    Client62
    Alessandro Volta

    The information contained is just of technical nature. It does not contain your browsing history.
    Connect to the Hub 3 and scroll down below the Password dialogue & click on "Check router status".


    The usual process would be to contact a work college and inform them your laptop has been lost or replaced
    can they forward you the relevant links.

    • MC151's avatar
      MC151
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      I've gotten a new laptop from work. That doesn't solve my problem. The original laptop that I was working on is no longer operational. I don't have any synced browsers. No one knows the websites I was using, and I didn't save them anywhere else. They were just bookmarked on the browser I was using. It was careless of me. None the less, I'm trying to see if I can save anything at all.

      On Google it said that routers save information on what websites you visit  which gave me hope. But apparently that's not the case with the VM hub?

      • Adduxi's avatar
        Adduxi
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        VM Hubs do not store any browsing history.  Your network would have to have something like a Syslog server or similar to record network traffic . 

  • Tudor's avatar
    Tudor
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    "The router is a hub 3 and I was using it in modem mode." unlikely to be a VM problem if you are in modem mode. You need to look at your own router and also check what DNS servers you are using.

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    用心棒
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    Consider using your browser's history function to review this information; if browser history is not synchronised between devices then check from the device originally used.

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  • I would take the HDD or SSD out of the old computer, put it into an external enclosure, and plug it into a different computer. This way you can browse the filesystem and extract the relevant files. As long as it wasn't encrypted with BitLocker or similar.

    Some browsers store favourites in plaintext, some store them in an encoded format which would require some software to decode.

    Here is the relevant help page for Firefox other browsers should be similar: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data#w_finding-your-profile-without-opening-firefox

    Example of a tool which can extract history from off-line browser installation: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/browsing_history_view.html

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    Adduxi
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    asim18 wrote:

    I would take the HDD or SSD out of the old computer, put it into an external enclosure, and plug it into a different computer. This way you can browse the filesystem and extract the relevant files. As long as it wasn't encrypted with BitLocker or similar.

     


    And this is why I use Bitlocker ....   🙂

    • asim18's avatar
      asim18
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      In some cases BitLocker can be bypassed in less than a minute with the right tool.

      youtube.com/watch?v=wTl4vEednkQ 

       

      • Adduxi's avatar
        Adduxi
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        Cool video and some brilliant skills. Of course the PIN is the way to go.