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Posted on 8 May 20248 May 2024

A twenty year old VPN vulnerability

I am a great believer in VPNs for better cyber security, especially when away from your main base – here are a couple of my articles explaining why: Let’s Talk About Your VPN It’s holiday time again – dust off that VPN! VPNs even got a mention in my recent …

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Posted on 31 January 202413 February 2025

Anonymous?

privacy online

I came across this article by Matt Burgess over on Wired UK, about being anonymous online, whilst I was doing some research for a client last week (yes, whilst on leave). I thought you should all read it as privacy is important: How to Be More Anonymous Online | WIRED …

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Posted on 24 January 202413 March 2024

More about your VPN

Your VPN in a hotel room

This is a follow-on article to last week’s article Let’s Talk About Your VPN. You should read that article first, to save me having to explain what a VPN is and why I am talking about them now. VPN Issues I spent last week talking up the cyber security advantages …

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Posted on 17 January 20248 April 2025

Let’s Talk About Your VPN

Pine Lake Resort portable office with a VPN

I am on holiday for the next two weeks – some cold weather walking in the Lake District and the Cairngorms, whilst Diana stays back in the warm office – so it must be time to discuss VPN use again. The photo above is the view whilst I write this …

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Posted on 15 August 202314 August 2023

Researchers just cannot leave things alone!

No sooner do I write an article telling you all about the cyber security benefits of using a VPN when you have doubts about an internet connection, than a team of academics come along with a paper showing that a VPN can be compromised. My article: It’s holiday time again …

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