Tag Archives: openvpn

VPN Services: HideMyAss Review – Part 2

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If you haven’t read the first part of this review, you can still check it out here. In fact, initially, I wanted to try HMA with my Android phone (still a 2.1). After checking the documentations, I found out that I needed to use the PPTP version (which, by the way, has a different credential [...]

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List of OpenVPN-based VPN Services

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OpenVPN is a free and open source virtual private network (VPN) application for creating point-to-point or server-to-multiclient encrypted tunnels between host computers. It is probably the most secure protocol used by VPN providers.  Below you can find a list of several popular VPN providers that offer OpenVPN as connecting application. OpenVPN uses the OpenSSL library to provide [...]

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How To Build Your Own VPN Network And Access Your Home Computer From Anywhere

If you are leaving in US or UK and you travel abroad you may face some problems when trying to access some sites you usually do from your home. There are a lot of sites that are accessible only to US/UK users. As US/UK citizen you may not be aware of this, but when you travel abroad you realize [...]

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What’s the difference between PPTP VPN and OpenVPN?

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VPN services are more and more used to hide IP addresses and provide anonymity due to their simplicity and efficiency. Most of these services offer connections through PPTP protocol and some offer OpenVPN connections. Both are functionally the same, in that they both are VPNs (Virtual Private Networks). As far as anonymity, both offer encryption [...]

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Veracode’s Highest Possible Security Rating for OpenVPN

Veracode, provider of the world’s leading Application Risk Management Platform, announced that OpenVPN version 2.0.9 has received their highest possible security rating. This demonstrates that OpenVPN is a secure application that has been independently evaluated for software vulnerabilities against industry standards (OWASP Top 10 and SANS-CWE Top 25). OpenVPN is a full-featured open source SSL [...]

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Internet Anonymity with VMWare and JanusVM

JanusVM is a software that uses VMware and Tor network to allow you surf the Internet without oppression or censorship, while protecting your privacy, security, and identity. It uses Tor  to hide your IP address and re-route your traffic around the internet anonymously. Even DNS requests are passed through Tor so even your ISP doesn’t know what [...]

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