Monthly Archives: July 2011

What VPN Solution for My Smartphone?

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From the previous articles, we always considered that, as a user, you connect through a VPN connection via a computer, whether it runs Linux, Mac OsX or Windows. Truth to be told, most of mobile users are now relyng on their mobile phone, and especially smartphone, for most of their daily tasks. So let’s take [...]

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Using VPN and Remote Desktop as a Remote Access Strategy

In my opinion, the easiest and most popular way to use VPN in a corporate environment is to pair it with MS Remote Desktop. This combination provides complete remote access solution for staff. To set this up, we need the following assumptions met. VPN server and client First of all, a VPN server needs to [...]

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My Adventure to Accessing Spotify via a VPN service

If you are a bit connected to social media (even if you don’t), I’m sure you’ve heard about Spotify – this online music streaming service that is only available for users in Finland, France, Norway, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and the US (at least by the time of this writing). If you’re not in [...]

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Free VPN Service – Ultra VPN

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Passing Thoughts – UltraVPN is only for nerds who can play with technical aspects of OpenVPN service as UltraVPN herself does not seem to hide your IP address. It can be used for basic Internet surfing, nothing more! In my ongoing quest to create a list of free VPN services, I plan to write about [...]

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Types of Proxy Servers

We all know what proxy servers are and for those who don’t, these are special types of servers that act as intermediaries between your home computer and the rest of the Internet effectively protecting your IP privacy. There are several types of proxy servers available on the net and having some basic knowledge about them [...]

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Hiding Local IP Addresses

Can private local area network addresses be hidden and allow employees to access the Internet anonymously? This is especially important if you want to avoid external users from initiating conversation with employees or users located on the internal network while still allowing Internet access. This is where masquerade NAT comes to the rescue. Masquerade NAT [...]

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Is a Free VPN Safe?

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In one of the series of article I wrote about FreeUSvpn.com free VPN service, one of the commenters asked if it’s safe to use this service. I’m going to bring my two cents to this critical question – and rather than answer for the particular VPN service quoted above, I’d like to address this in [...]

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Anonymous Proxy – You Get What You Pay For

Those who want to enjoy private browsing or need to cover their tracks on the Internet would more than likely consider visiting one of the numerous sites that are advertising free anonymous proxies.   Notice the keyword here:  FREE. Anyone knowledgeable about the Internet will know that it takes money to run a proxy server. So, [...]

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Understanding The Most Secure Firefox Add-on – Cocoon

Basically, Cocoon helps you surf the entire Internet via a proxy. This helps the user to use the Internet without revealing their IP address to the World Wide Web. This can be confirmed by validating your own IP addresses with cocoon enabled and when it is not enabled. They will be different! How does Cocoon [...]

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Firefox Add-on ‘Cocoon’ Is Free!

If you haven’t heard of Cocoon yet then I can assure you that soon you will be hearing about the same just because it’s free now! Though there might be plenty of security browsers and add-ons that filter off the information as per user requirements but hardly any one of those do their job perfectly. [...]

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