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Onavo Protect Takes The VPN Route To Make Browsing Safe On iPhone

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For quite a long time, tools like WOT have been providing a safety net for users surfing the web from their computers, but when you are on your iPhone, common sense is usually the sole protection you have against phishing scams and unsafe websites. Nowadays, your mobile devices often hold much more of your sensitive personal data than desktops, so the potential for disaster in case of a security breach is greater. Android has long been notorious for malware and lax security, but iOS has had its fair share of issues as well. The Google Play Store has apps like Avira Android Security and Advanced Mobile Care that are pretty decent antivirus tools, but iOS doesn't have much to offer in that genre, with apps like AirCover being rare exceptions. Onavo Protect is a brand new security app from a trusted name in the industry, and it aims to make sure that you never have to worry about inadvertently giving away your private information to scammers while surfing the web from your iPhone. The app also monitors your browsing sessions to ensure that you are alerted whenever a website is not safe. Read More

Unblock Websites Or Accelerate Web Browsing On PC & Android With Hola

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Internet censorship is becoming more and more serious everyday. Many governments block access to certain websites or online services within their country. In other cases, many online services don't offer some or all of their content in certain regions; many of us have click a YouTube video link to land on a message saying the selected video is not available in our region. Same goes for many other services that are being provided in the US only. While finding out the reason why these services aren't accessible in your part of the world is probably something beyond your control, what you can still do is actually access the website using a VPN, though most free VPN services have a catch: low speed or advertisements. Hola is one of the newest entries in the free VPN services scene with clients for Windows and Android that accelerate internet browsing and allow you to access blocked content without compromising the speed. Moreover, it allows you to browse the internet while maintaining complete anonymity, and supports major internet browsers including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari. Keep reading to find out more about Hola. Read More

Official Android App Of VPN Service TunnelBear Now Available In Play Store

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The official Android app of popular VPN service, TunnelBear, has just been released to the Google Play Store. Initially available for Windows and Mac only, TunnelBear now allows Android users to privately browse the internet on their mobile devices with complete freedom. With this free app running on your device, you no longer have to worry about not being able to access location-restricted websites or services, such as Facebook, YouTube, Hulu, Spotify, Netflix and Pandora. Unlike most Android VPN tools, TunnelBear works on both rooted and non-rooted devices, and more importantly, can be downloaded and used without paying a dime. Apart from its overall effectiveness, the app’s interface is praiseworthy, since it’s both intuitive as well as quite simple to use. If you've ever used TunnelBear on desktop, you won’t have much trouble using its mobile counterpart. Once activated, the app’s services can be monitored and toggled from anywhere within the entire OS through the TunnelBear notification panel widget. Read More

X-Proxy: One-Click Way To Fake Your IP Address & Access Blocked Web Content

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While surfing the internet, your IP address is your unique identifier, which can reveal sensitive information about you, including geographical location. This is how Geo-restricted websites determine our actual location and deny access in some countries. Nowadays, VPNs are used to avoid getting blocked in certain regions. For example, you are at times unable to view some YouTube videos because of them not being made available in your region by the uploader. Using a VPN application, you can bypass this barrier and view unavailable content, and/or visit blocked domains. Moreover, you are also prone to attacks by hackers and malicious codes, if they know your real IP address, and find any gaps in your computer's security. We've covered some very useful applications that allow you to browse the internet without revealing your real IP. Today, we have another application, called X-Proxy, that lets you surf anonymously, access blocked content and prevent attacks from hackers. Keep reading to find out about X-Proxy. Read More

Spotflux: Encrypt Internet Traffic, Access Blocked Websites & Remove Ads

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When browsing through the massive, never-ending universe of the world wide web, we often come across various visible and hidden threats in the form of viruses, malware, keyloggers etc. One way to counter these threats is to use an updated antivirus program and keep your firewall active at all times. However, sending and receiving data over an unsecured connection still continues to be a security threat. Previously, we covered an application called TrafficLight that keeps your computer safe by continually scanning the internet traffic and blocking almost all possible vulnerabilities and potentially harmful elements. Today, we have a relatively advance traffic monitoring application called Spotflux. It provides you with an encrypted connection, malware and virus protection, open and unrestricted access to blocked content, and a private, ad-free browsing experience. Keep reading past the break for further details. Read More

Secure Untrusted/Public Internet Connections On Mac Using Cloak VPN

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Want to secure your Mac OS X from external data theft and online profiling services that surreptitiously steal the information you enter while filling forms, and sell the gathered data to spammers? Although there are numerous kind of applications and web extensions available out there to secure the communication between your PC and connected system server, most tools deploy security systems only for web browsers to prevent data theft and other like attacks. What if you use multiple applications that connect to their online servers to perform the required function? How would you add an extra layer of data security to protect your entire system, including web browsers and desktop applications from unauthorized system usage? Cloak is an overly simple, yet powerful application that keeps you safe from prying eyes on all types of untrusted wireless networks. It’s basically a VPN tool that provides highly secured channels for all online communication. Read past the jump for details. Read More

How To Quickly Switch Between Proxy Servers Using ProxySwap

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When you are on the internet, your IP address is the indicator of your geographical location, and your online address where you can be reached at. Due to the same reason, sometimes when you open up a website or a video on YouTube, a message pops up that the requested item is not available in your region. These days, changing the external IP address for accessing blocked content, using VPNs in particular, is very simple and quick. A lot of times, your workplace requires you to use a proxy server to access restricted content, as well as prevent external sources (on the internet) from obtaining information located on your machine. Manually switching it requires you to open Internet Properties from Control Panel and change the Local Area Network Settings to enter the required proxy server. ProxySwap is an open source application for Windows that lets you create a list of frequently used proxy servers and quickly switch between them. More on ProxySwap after the jump. Read More

SecurityKiss: Browse Anonymously With 300MB Of Free Daily Bandwith

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We have previously reviewed a number of anonymous browsing and VPN services/applications. We even provided a comprehensive VPN (Virtual Private Network) guide for our readers, to explain the in-depth concept and procedure of creating a VPN. Recently, we came across a very handy VPN application, known as SecurityKiss. Unlike other applications of its kind, such as TunnelBear, it does not require logging in with an account, and provides 300MB of free bandwidth on a daily basis. This is much more than what most services offer, as even TunnelBear provides merely 500MB of free bandwidth per month (and an additional 1GB bandwidth on request via Twitter). Read More

Comodo Unite: Remote Control Desktop, Create Private VPN & Group Chat

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Remote access to another computer on your network has been around for quite a while now. The internet repository is flooded with various tools that make it easier to connect to another computer on your LAN. While remote access on the same network sounds easy as a pie, it can be a hassle to connect with a computer that is located on a different network (e.g. an office computer). In such a case it can be quite complicated to create a VPN (Virtual Private Network) for remote connectivity. Comodo Unite is an application for creating your very own VPN, to connect and share files between two geographically distant computers. With the help of Comodo Unite, you can easily access one PC from another, as if it was located on the same local network. It works even from networks that are protected with a firewall and comes with an integrated secure messaging service, which uses 128-bit encryption to secure private communications. Read More

Best Free VPN Services To Anonymize IP & Secure Internet Connection

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Last week, we discussed the advantages of virtual private network over leased line-based private and hybrid networks, VPN tunneling technologies and types, and also showed you a simple way of creating a VPN connection. Apart from encrypting the communication, VPN is also used as an alternative to proxy servers to secure the communication between two clients & client and server, on a network. One of the reasons why most users prefer using VPN service instead of proxy server, is that, VPN provides strong encryption, and in some cases, multi-hopping connectivity, making it very difficult for external sources to trace down the connected systems. This VPN-provided anonymity lets users access region-restricted websites, data portals, content sharing platforms etc, from any part of the world. In this post, we will look at VPN services that you can use to anonymize the connection as well as secure the communication. Read More

What Is VPN & Tunneling; How To Create And Connect To VPN Network [Beginner's Guide]

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When it comes to deploying a highly secured and reliable data transmission system to meet the inter-organization and intra-organization communication needs, most organizations choose to adapt one among 3 types of networking techniques; Private Network, Hybrid Network and Virtual Private Network. In this post, we will look at each network type, and discuss Virtual Private Network, VPN tunneling, techniques & types of VPN and how to create and setup a VPN network. Read More

TrustConnect VPN Provides Anonymous Browsing To Protect Your Privacy

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It is a well known fact that using anonymous browsing is much safer than a normal browsing session. Apparently harmless services too profile user data to determine browsing habits for marketing purposes which, according to some, is a violation of personal privacy. Comodo has a VPN service known as Comodo TrustConnect. It provides anonymous browsing credentials to creates a shield around your network which prevents malicious and user profiling elements from scanning your system. It uses 128-bit encryption and an SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) based Virtual Private Network for maximum security. It has both free and paid versions. The free version provides up to 10GB of monthly bandwidth, whereas, the paid versions (available in $3.99 Daily, $8.99 monthly and 19.95 yearly packages). Comodo TrustConect is available for Windows, Mac and Linux based operating systems. Read More

VPN Watcher – Automatically Close Programs When VPN Connection Is Down

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A Virtual Private Network or VPN is used for accessing and using resources of a remote network. It provides the option to enable strict authentication and encryption methods to prevent unauthorized personnel from accessing sensitive information of the network which is being accessed remotely. VPNs are frequently used by remote workers to access data and network resources of remote company offices. VPN Watcher is a handy application for VPN users, which allows closing certain applications from sending any data to a network when VPN connection is not working. VPN Watcher can therefore help you avoid transmitting data from certain application when you are not connected to the VPN. Since VPN access in offices is provided keeping in mind strict measures to avoid confidential data from being leaked,  it makes sense to close data transmitting applications when the VPN connection is down. This can help avoid data from being transmitted by applications across a local network in order to ensure that the controlled applications only send data when they are connected to the VPN. Read More

CyberGhost VPN Allows Free, Anonymous Private Browsing [Privacy]

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Using anonymous surfing by concealing your actual credentials is a much safer way to browse the Internet than to do otherwise. This is because harmful websites attempt to log IP addresses for malicious purposes. As certain spyware applications and harmful codes require personal IP addresses to initiate attacks. Similarly, hackers try to use IP information in order to obtain home addresses, credit card information, social security numbers and bank account credentials. Using an anonymous proxy tricks such malicious sources by providing them with alternative credentials, which protects your computer’s security from being compromised. Having a proxy also shelters from tracking agents that attempt to profile user activities. Read More

Tunnelbear – Free VPN To Access Popular Blocked Websites Around The World

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I really hate that obnoxious text line which reads something like "this website cannot be accessed from your current location". Okay, no worries, we can use a VPN to gain access. There are many paid services which provide VPN and proxy services to access restricted websites like Hulu, Pandora, Spotify, etc., from anywhere. However, seldom do we come across free applications which have the potential of bypassing restrictions imposed by location restricted websites. TunnelBear is a VPN application which gives US and UK based IPs to allow direct access to popular location restricted websites, without causing any streaming hiccups. When you use TunnelBear, your network traffic is routed through the Tunnel Bear VPN to disguise your actual location. Using TunnelBear, we were easily able to access location restricted websites like Hulu, Spotify and Pandora. Another noteworthy aspect of TunnelBear is that it is not an ad-supported application like other applications of its kind, such as, HotSpot Shield. Read More

Access Websites Restricted In Your Country With Ricco VPN

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Some websites are blocked outside a specific country or region due to copyright issues and political reasons. The latter has been recently seen in many countries around the world due to anti-government protests and the drive to control information. This is a common annoyance that leaves many users stranded and deprived of access to quality content. To bypass such limitations, many users use proxies, however, they are often detected by servers which are meant to block content for users from specific lcoations. A better alternative is to us a VPN (Virtual Private Network). Unlike a proxy, a VPN is a secure mechanism of connecting to a private LAN at a remote location. This can be done either using the Internet or any public network to transport the network data packets. Large corporations often provide VPN access to their employees to allow them o obtain data from their office computer in case of an emergency or to remote execute task. This process has been converted into a proxy mechanism in recent years to allow users to access location restricted websites and to provide them with secure browsing. Read More

iVPN Is Fast, Anonymous VPN Service With Multihop Routing [Giveaway]

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Virtual Private Network, generally known as VPN is a virtual network of 2 or more PCs connected with each to securely transmit data over internet. Over the years, the VPN technology has evolved a lot not only in terms of creating secured tunnels for transferring encrypted data but also to give anonymous channels to user to spoof ISP provided IPs and deceive other surreptitious tools that can anytime log user’s online activity. While the concept of using VPNs is not limited to inter-organizational secure data transmission needs, users, who are in dire need to bypass ISP imposed restrictions to access some blocked websites or online data portals, rely more on VPN services instead of using proxy servers in order to keep their request send and receive processes encrypted, and thus, highly-confidential. Read More

Create Your Own Cloud Network With Leaf Networks

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There are many software and web services available out there that provide synchronization of data between multiple users. However, as the time of cloud computing lurks over the horizon, we are far likely to witness more cloud-based applications with better features. There are many ways one can create a private network for synchronizing files and connecting with multiple users. One way is to configure a Windows Home Server, whereas another is to create a VPN (Virtual Private Network). Leaf Networks is a Windows application that allows creating your own cloud based network. It provides options to connect with your friends, play Xbox / Xbox 360, provides easy connectivity to your files, and options for sharing files with multiple people connected to your private network. It is primarily considered an alternative to a VPN and provides the utility of creating your cloud based network without the need of setting up a server. Read More

Add Automatic Routes For VPN Connections With NetCatcher

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Some people require establishing a VPN-connection to get some tasks done or to access data from a remote network (e.g. their office network). In such a case, the IP range of the two networks (such as that of your ISP at home and your office network) may be different. For example, the DHCP server of your ADSL connection may have assigned your system with the following IP: 10.10.110.12, whereas your office network computer (to which you wish to connect via a VPN), may have an IP such as 10.10.50.50.9. Lets assume that 1.1.1.1 is your VPN-gateway and 1.1.1.2 is your VPN-connection IP-address. In this scenario, if you specify “use as default route” (in VPN-connections settings window), then the internet connection will be accessed through the VPN, i.e. the corporate network of your company. While disabling the “use as default route” option will mean that you will not be able to access the computer at your office. A remedy to this problem is NetCatcher. By using this application you can add routes automatically when the VPN connection is established, which will enable you to access the remote computer while retaining internet access from your home ISP. Read More