Circumvent IP Restrictions While In The UAE and Start Watching US Netflix Today

By Edna | Published: January 28, 2012

Netflix has evolved to become a household name for providing US content streamed straight from your PC or high definition TV right from the comforts of your own home.  The enticing element with Netflix is the sheer volume of content that’s easily made available to you in just a simple click of a mouse. But not when you’re from the UAE. Unfortunately, Netflix has blocked access from countries outside of the USA including UAE.

On the other hand, Netflix is mainly available in the United States. From here you can access the blockbuster movies, the best titles, and the hit TV series of all time! Not too long ago, Netflix made it available in the Latin America and Canada, along with some projected idea of expansion on select few countries by 2012.

While Netflix may eventually become available in your country, there is one downside to it. The crux? That the main US Netflix shall remain the best hub for updated content and the greatest titles available. To put it succinctly, the stakes are indeed high that you may access the local version of Netflix in UAE in the long run, yet you might still want access to US Netflix! Read More »

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50% OFF on IbVPN for Their Year Two Birthday. This Saturday Only

By Heryzo | Published: January 27, 2012

This is an offer you don’t want to miss: 50% OFF on all IbVPN package are available this saturday 28th only. 

For their second year birthday, IbVPN has made an incredible offer and I think How-to-hide-IP readers should jump at it: this is an offer you don’t want to miss. Can you imagine it? 50% OFF, that’s a huge discount you don’t want to miss.

And as if it weren’t enough, IbVPN is also launching the Ultimate VPN Account: gives you 35 extra IPs, remote assistance, a dedicated account manager. Considering that the usual price for that new package is only $10.95/month, this is already a bargain – but now, if you apply the 50%, then it’s more than  a treat. Hurry up guys, the offer is only available on Saturday 28th 2012, you don’t want to miss it.

Why do I recommend IbVPN?

How-To-Hide-Ip readers know that I’m a long-time IbVPN happy customer. So I definitely have no issue recommending it to other people. If you recall it, I once wrote about IbVPN package that allows P2P/torrent traffic. But even before that article about Torrent support, I’ve already reported some IbVPN use to you.  If you browse through the archives of How-to-hide-ip for articles I wrote dealing with accessing sites like Hulu, BBC iPlayer, Spotify- you know that the VPN solution I used for doing those case studies were IbVPN. Read More »

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Google’s Plan with Their New Privacy Policy

By Heryzo | Published: January 27, 2012

If you are a user of one of Google’s “free” products, I’m sure you have received an e-mail from Google inviting you to check their new and consolidated privacy policy. Had Google hired a professional copywriter to get you reading the privacy policy, when they mention that they have decided to unify almost 60 policies, I’m not sure everybody have taken a look at it.

So let’s highlight few items that are worth mentioning. You’ll probably skip this article, as you’ve surely skipped Google’s e-mail announcing the update on the privacy policy: indeed, why would you spend three minutes reading a too “bureaucratic” writing?

- Well, it’ll only be effective on March 1st 2012 so you may say you still have time. But you can’t say you haven’t been warned should you have any concerns about this move, so it’s your call. Oh, and in case you think you have enough power to get Google reconsidering this move, well, there’s no way top opt-out from a privacy policy except not using Google services anymore.

- Users can customize their privacy settings. This reminds me of one article I once read where one big guy (I can’t remember who it was, was it Steve Jobs?) who said that Google is becoming the next Microsoft (and facebook IMHO). Leaving to the user the choice to configure his own privacy settings is like asking someone who’s never been to a kitchen to cook the diner for tonight while leaving all the ingredients on the table: it just doesn’t work. Have you seen how people react to the multiple Facebook privacy updates? People had enough, and a lot (including me) is considering that facebook just can’t secure any private informations. Read More »

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Get Your VPN Working Straight From Your Favorite Android Device

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 26, 2012

There have been a lot of rave reviews about the newest Android devices in the marketplace lately. To date, Android remained the most preferred platform in mobile phones and other droid handheld devices. With the launching of new Android OS – Ice Cream Sandwich (Android v4.0) comes a gamut of other exciting new treats for your handhelds.

According to statistics, by the end of 2010, Android phones had an approximately 3.5% share of the top smart data phones in the market, and by the end of 2011, it ballooned to around 75% of the market share making it the industry leader across the globe. It was estimated that there are currently 500,000 (and still growing) Android devices that got activated each and every single day according to a survey conducted by Google.

Android platform

As the demand for portability continues to grow, the need for a VPN service subscription has likewise escalated in numbers. Together with the passage of time and the sudden surge of technological innovations, mobile phones have evolved to contain features comparable to that of a desktop computer and have provided more functionality to end user apart from the usual SMS and calling capabilities. By now you may have heard of Android phones with features like cloud computing, remote access, file sharing, and other robust computer-like qualities. Now, you can browse thru the World Wide Web anywhere, anytime, even while lying in your bed provided you have Wi-Fi connectivity. Read More »

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How Would You Feel If Your Passwords Were Published Online?

By Heryzo | Published: January 25, 2012

This is another report about one of the attacks of the Anonymous guys (I can’t help talking about it since we’re in the middle of a World War Web  now).

Apart from hacking paid online catalogs and making it available for free download via torrent, the #OpMegaupload is also targeting strategic corporate and government websites in different countries of the world. Most of the times, they target the department of Justice. But one attack that is worth mentioning is the recent one the geared toward the FTC-related corporate wabsite called OnGuarOnline.gov. According to it definition,

"OnGuardOnline.gov, a partnership of fourteen federal agencies managed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)"

As of today, if we browse that website, it shows a clear sign that it has been tampered by the Anonymous

Having your own website tampered and showing something else is one big issue (especially when your core job is related to internet). But more importantly, when those hackers publish the list of users/e-mail address as well as the hashed password on the same page – that’s horrifying. Read More »

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Would You Download Sony Music for Free?

By Heryzo | Published: January 24, 2012

Yesterday I wrote about the fact that Anonymous hacked Sony Music’s catalog and made it available for free. While searching for the internet, I could find a website that had the links to the torrent files for downloading the huge catalog. As an example, I could find from the list album a 800Mb torrent file for Alicia Keys that contains multiple albums that contains “DJ-Love” and some unplugged live albums.

I would say those are genuine files (if it weren’t then you know how to scour the internet looking for feedbacks from people who actually downloaded them). From the time of writing this article, the torrent files were still alive. And due to the conception of torrents, I would expect that this breach has already given the opportunity to hackers and pirates to download whatever they could then share it to the whole internet in a distributed peer-to-peer manner. Which means that even if Sony can technically recover the security breach and close its catalog (or at least bring it back to the normal situation where people would have to buy first before being able to download legal files).

I know you are expecting me to share with you the links for doing so: to be frank with you, I won’t do that. But since it’s very easy to find this out via some search on the internet, I guess you can do it by yourself. For the purpose of writing this article, I just took a sneak peak on what was made available on one of the torrent files so that I can give a more fact-checked information to how-to-hide-ip.info readers. Read More »

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Sony’s Music and Movie Catalog Made Available for Free

By Heryzo | Published: January 23, 2012

Megaupload collateral damages, now hits France. On the other hand, Sony’s music and movie catalog was made available for free on the internet last Sunday.

We all have heard it : the popular file-sharing platform megaupload.com has been brought down, a ripost from a group called The Anonymous meant to attack major French websites as a follow-up to their #OpMegaupload campaign.

In fact, while I coined (well I think so) the word “World Web War” as I imagined the scenario of the next Hollywood movie that will deal with SOPA, it is now certain that reality goes far beyond my imagination.

Now the collateral damages (or is it more than that) has also landed in France (while SOPA and PIPA actually happens in the USA). The anonymous group has claimed an attack that led to the issues with the Vivendi online resources.  As if it weren’t enough, they also claimed to be the guys between the downtime of the French ministry of Justice website. Read More »

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Hotspot Shield Adds Malware Protection

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 23, 2012

Hotspot Shield, the popular free VPN service, recently added malware protection for its users. The new Hotspot Shield function alerts users if they access domains that are known to contain malware. The add-on is available on Windows, Mac and iOS and uses a database of more than 3 million sites.

Speaking about the new feature, David Gorodyansky, the founder and CEO of AnchorFree, said:

“Malware is one of the biggest threats on the Web — and it’s growing every day. People go to great lengths to avoid desktop viruses, but many of us still leave our browsing sessions unprotected and open to hacking attacks. Merging our powerful encryption and private browsing technology with malware protection now makes Hotspot Shield the world’s most comprehensive Internet security solution — available at no cost to consumers.”

When active HotSpot Shield protection module throws up a warning like the one you see in the screenshot below:

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How To Setup IbVPN on DD-WRT router

By Tavir | Published: January 22, 2012

We continue our series of tutorials for installing VPN services on routers.  This article explains the instalation of the IbVPN on router with DD-WRT firmware.

IbVPN provides a pretty clear tutorial for this installation: DD-WRT routers OpenVPN setup, except for a couple of tips that are useful for the not-tech users.

Installing IbVPN

Step 1: Download the file dd-wrt ovpn from the site.  Copy the entire file into your Command Shell (Administration => Commands) and replace “your@email.address VPNPasword” with the login info you received from ibVPN.

Next, click Save Startup.

Step 2. Change DNS settings. IbVPN recommends the Google DNS servers:

google-public-dns-a.google.com 8.8.8.8
google-public-dns-b.google.com 8.8.4.4

Go to Tab Setup => Basic Setup  and make the following changes:

Then click Save.  It only remains for you only to reboot your router.

Step 3: Configuring IPs. Each package has its own IP addresses.  For the package TorrentVPN here they are:

NL: 62.212.72.172 (Amsterdam2)
TO: 46.165.196.25 (Frankfurt2)
LU: 212.117.165.18 (Luxemburg)

Simply put this script in your Command Shell: /tmp/ibvpn/vpn start + IP resulting /tmp/ibvpn/vpn start 62.212.72.172 for NL address .  Click Run Commands.

The message launching OpenVPN process appears.  Wait a few minutes and the process is completed.  Use the following script to stop the IP VPN: /tmp/ibvpn/vpn stop.

In case of connection problems:

  • First: Remove “explicit-exit-notify 3″ of the startup script. Reboot and set the desired IP.
  • Contact support.  To facilitate the help you can give the logs.  Just do three very easy command line (Make Run Commands between each line):
    * ps
    * ip ro l
    * cat / tmp / ibvpn / vpn.log

What gives with this command line: ps – Click on Run Commands to bring up the Log.  Repeat the operation for each line.

Enjoy!

[via VPNBlog.net]

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How To Set Up VPN On A Video Game Console

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 21, 2012

Video gaming aficionados worldwide are always looking out for the best games to download and enjoy in their games console of choice. Hence, games manufacturers are endeavoring on enhancing their respective hardware and software components, while the internet service providers and top gaming companies double their time and efforts in restricting gamers from utilizing various online portals to gain access to their top-selling games.

Should you be living in a country where you are unable to access games for online gaming and downloading, then your last resort would be employing a VPN or Virtual Private Network to bypass these restrictions.

Stay anonymous while you play

In the same way you connect to the World Wide Web via VPN using your personal computer or laptop, you may likewise connect through various VPN servers on your PSP, Xbox 360, or any Nintendo handheld consoles. By doing this, the ISP’s will have a hard time identifying who you really are. As you stay anonymous, VPN servers will help you access any online game, play, or download it straight to your favorite online gaming device. You may even go the extra mile by getting a hold of your favorite game at top P2P file sharing websites online, thanks to VPN services!

For you to utilize VPN on your preferred gaming console such as Xbox 360, or PSP, you must have a wireless router ready, a laptop with Wi-Fi port, an ethernet cable, and your VPN service account. Initially, you must set up your VPN account. Simply head online and scour the web for reputable yet affordable VPN services and subscribe to one.

Consequently, you may set up your VPN every single time by connecting to your VPN client app found in your computer. To be able to utilize VPN on your video games console, connect it to your PC or laptop with the help of an ethernet cable. Next, connect to the web through your Wi-Fi connectivity. After that, set up your VPN network to let other devices to connect, which in turn will allow you to acknowledge the video game console device on the chosen VPN network.

As soon as the network is all set, you may test your connection to make sure everything is going smoothly as expected. Now, you may proceed to downloading games and virtually anything you want for your gaming device such as audio or perhaps a matching theme to personalize your device, as well as make your gaming console stand out in the crowd. Isn’t that cool?

Play geo-restricted games from outside US

If you are outside US and you want to connect to a game server that restricts the access to users from US, you can easily bypass the restriction by choosing a VPN service that offers US IP addresses. Thus, by connecting to such a VPN server you will look like a legit US users from the perspective of the game server.

Check out established and reputable VPNs that offer UP IP addresses:

VPN Provider Starting Price
HideMyAss from $11.52/month
IAPS Security Services from $9.95/month
HideIpVPN from $5.95/month
InvisibleBrowsingVPN from $4.95/month
Overplay $9.95/month
PureVPN from $9.95/month
StrongVPN from $21/3 months
VPNTunnel from $12.95/month

Similarly, if the game is restricted to a certain country all you have to do is to find a VPN service that offers servers in that area. It’s that simple! Enjoy!

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