If your router is behind NAT (Network Address Translation), then it is not directly accessible from the Internet. As a result, any services running on your router is not directly accessible. You need to know if your router is behind NAT if you plan to run a VPN server on your router so that you […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...What is Dynamic DNS? In short, Dynamic DNS (DDNS) is a DNS service for hosts without static IP addresses. There are two sides to your home network, the internal network (aka LAN) and the external network (aka WAN). The internal IP addresses are assigned by the router (and can be changed by the user), while […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...This guide assumes that you have obtained a Personal Information Exchange (p12) file from your VPN service provider. The file contains the server certificate and maybe the client private key & certificate (if using certificate authentication instead of EAP-MACHAP v2). There are two major tasks: install the certificates and create a VPN connection. Task 1: […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...This guide assumes that you have obtained a Personal Information Exchange (p12) file from your VPN service provider. The file contains the server certificate and maybe the client private key & certificate (if using certificate authentication instead of EAP-MACHAP v2). There are two major tasks: install the certificates and create a VPN connection. Task 1: […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...By default, Android displays notification content on the lock screen. While it may seem like a convenient feature at first, it’s probably a bad idea. This is what my lock screen looked like after I requested a password reset on Facebook: Looks scary? Here’s how to turn it off: Open the Settings app Tap on […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...The above picture is often used to illustrate how VPNs can protect your privacy. Because the VPN creates an encrypted tunnel between you and the Internet, your privacy is protected. However, the picture is missing a very important piece: the VPN service provider. As you can see, the encrypted tunnel ends at the VPN service […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...Recently, two unsecured databases were discovered on the Internet. Exactis, a Florida marketing data aggregator, exposed 340 Million Consumer Records to the world. Another company, Telemedicine, exposed detailed health care information on more than 2.3 million patients in Mexico, by making a MongoDB database accessible to anyone without a password. In both cases, the researchers […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...You’ve had the experience. You looked at something on a shopping site, then that thing follows you all around the Internet. It feels creepy. Trust me, those companies take privacy very seriously – their privacy. You see, you looked at the pair of shoes you later bought. The shopping site knew that you looked at […]
2 Comments. Continue Reading...People don’t like to be tracked around everywhere they go on the web. So all major browsers give you the option to “block third party cookies”. And there’s a DNT header that your browser sends on your behalf to nicely tell the tracking parties that you don’t want to be tracked. However, the big question […]
1 Comment. Continue Reading...The pcWRT router allows you to pause the Internet in multiple ways. You can pause all devices with Access Control enabled, or only devices in a certain profile. You can pause while connected to your home network, or remotely through pcwrt.com. A single click on the pause button pauses the Internet for 30 minutes, each […]
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