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 …
Let’s Talk About Your 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 …
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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It’s holiday time again – dust off that VPN!
The first thing to say is that a VPN is for life – not just for the holidays. What’s a VPN? I could tell you about internet tunnels and cryptography here – I passed the secure networking test at Uni, but let’s keep it simple. It is a private, secure …
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Another network hardware flaw – this time VPNs
Lat week it was Barracuda this week it is Fortinet VPNs: Fortinet fixes critical RCE flaw in Fortigate SSL-VPN devices, patch now (bleepingcomputer.com) By now you should have realised that network hardware has to be on your cyber security to do list. A note on VPNs I am away this …
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