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Credit to Author: Michael Horowitz| Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 11:20:00 -0700

The recent wave of new mesh router systems has brought with it changes besides the obvious increase in Wi-Fi range. For example, these mesh routers are more likely to insist on WPA2-AES encryption, as many have dropped support for the less secure WEP and WPA options. Not all of them, but many.

Here I take a look at another insecure router technology, WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) and how these new mesh routers deal with it.

WPS is an alternate way of gaining access to a Wi-Fi network that does away with having to know the SSID (network name) and password. Much of what you read about WPS is incomplete, as it supports at least four different modes of operation.

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ComputerWorld Independent

April 16, 2017 admin

An introduction to six types of VPN software

Credit to Author: Michael Horowitz| Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 15:44:00 -0700

A VPN is simply an encrypted connection between two computers, each side running VPN software. The two sides, however, are not equal.

The software that you, as the user of a VPN service deal with, is known as the VPN client. The software run by a VPN company is a VPN server. The encrypted connection always starts with a VPN client making a request to a VPN server.

There are many different flavors of VPN connections, each with its own corresponding client and server software. The most popular flavors are probably L2TP/IPsec, OpenVPN, IKEv2 and PPTP.

Some VPN providers support only one flavor, others are much more flexible. Astrill, for example, supports OpenWeb, OpenVPN, PPTP, L2TP, Cisco IPSec, IKEv2, SSTP, StealthVPN and RouterPro VPN. At the other extreme, OVPN, as their name implies, only supports OpenVPN.

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ComputerWorld Independent

April 13, 2017 admin

IDG Contributor Network: Improve your internet privacy, with or without help from the government

Credit to Author: Robert C. Covington| Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 08:39:00 -0700

President Trump, as part of his plan to roll back regulations put in place by President Obama, just signed legislation that eliminates the prohibition against internet service providers selling customer data without their written consent. Although the original restriction had not yet taken effect, its elimination ignited a firestorm of controversy among privacy organizations, including the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the American Civil Liberties Union (which tried to no avail to get Trump to veto the legislation at the last minute).

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ComputerWorld Independent

April 13, 2017 admin

Improve your internet privacy, with or without help from the government

Credit to Author: Robert C. Covington| Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 08:39:00 -0700

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Kaspersky Security

April 7, 2017 admin

How to protect your kids from unwanted content on iPads and iPhones

Credit to Author: Marvin the Robot| Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 13:00:57 +0000

Kaspersky Safe Browser for iOS lets you filter unwanted content — violence, adult materials, drugs, and more.

ComputerWorld Independent

April 4, 2017 admin

Politicians' web browsing history targeted after privacy vote

Credit to Author: Grant Gross| Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 10:47:00 -0700

Two GoFundMe campaigns have raised more than $290,000 in an effort to buy the web browsing histories of U.S. politicians after Congress voted to allow broadband providers to sell customers’ personal information without their permission.

It’s unclear if those efforts will succeed, however. Even though Congress scrapped the FCC’s ISP privacy rules last week, the Telecommunications Act still prohibits telecom providers from selling personally identifiable information in many cases.

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ComputerWorld Independent

April 3, 2017 admin

WikiLeaks’ Assange gets relief from left victory in Ecuador

Credit to Author: John Ribeiro| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 04:18:00 -0700

The win in Ecuador’s presidential elections of leftist government candidate Lenin Moreno will likely provide relief to WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange, who had been threatened with eviction from the country’s embassy in London by the opposition candidate.

The election in the South American country had aroused interest in part because the conservative opposition candidate, Guillermo Lasso, had said that if elected he would evict Assange within 30 days of assuming power, because it was costing the country too much to keep him at the embassy.

The embassy is being constantly monitored by U.K. police ever since Assange slipped into it in 2012 and was granted asylum by the Ecuador government. Police say they will arrest Assange if he comes out of the embassy to meet an extradition request from Sweden in connection with an investigation into a sexual assault. Assange supporters are concerned that he may be moved from Sweden to the U.S. to face charges in connection with several leaks of confidential U.S. government information.

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