Home » Archives for Theo Martinez

Author: Theo Martinez

What is Shadowsocks – An alternative to VPN?

Shadowsocks is basically an open-source for bypassing the censored content on internet. It was introduced in 2012 by a Chinese programmer with an anonymous name “CLOWWINDY”. It is used, widely, to access the restricted web sources in one’s country and to hide your identity in order to work anonymously. Shadowsocks came to the mainstream when great firewall in china occurred, that is the blocking of major VPN providers. It became popular as an alternative for VPN, but it is exactly not a VPN like service. After successful implementation of the protocols employed in the Shadowsocks, since then, several other applications have been developed using these protocols.

What Shadowsocks is for

It is mainly aimed at going past censorship with HTTPS and deceived traffic restrictions. Shadowsocks runs on the client side using a software application support, which, like SSH tunnel, runs socks5 proxy to divert internet traffic. But unlike SSH tunnel, UDP (User Datagram Protocol) traffic can also be diverted using Shadowsocks. What Shadowsocks does is that it creates a concealed connected between the proxy server running in your computer and the Shadowsocks client in user system with the help of SOCKS5, which is an open source internet protocol.

Read more

VPN Area Review

VPNArea is a very popular VPN service provider based in Bulgaria and helps in keeping your identity anonymous while browsing internet. It automatically encrypts your information and then re-routes the information from its own remote servers. Therefore, you don’t need to worry about your online activities being tracked by someone.

VPNArea bypasses the restrictions imposed by websites and allows you to connect easily. It has a 100% no logs policy and your real location, online activities, and IP address remains completely hidden. It provides unlimited bandwidth so that you don’t need to worry about how much data has been consumed. It has been providing VPN services since 2012 making it one of the reliable and trusted VPN providers.

Features

  • Encryption protocols: VPNArea supports major encryption protocols such as OpenVPN and PPTP.
  • OpenVPN provides cross platform portability and has a highly secure 256 bit key encryption with OpenSSL authentication. VPNArea uses an OpenVPN based program known as Chameleon. It provides most stable connection across all kinds of network such as wired, mobile or WLAN. It provides very high speed and secure connection having ability to bypass almost all firewalls, ISPs and networks.
  • PPTP is the most common VPN protocol for Windows which provides a 128 bit basic encryption and is supported by large number of devices. It provides high speed connection, but due to its low level encryption, it is less secure and sometimes leads to unstable connections.

    • VPNArea by default uses AES-256 bit key encryption. Read more

How to Browse the Web Anonymously: Protect your Privacy

In today’s world of internet where everyone’s life is virtually in the open, anonymity and privacy have become one of the major concerns. One never knows when one’s activities are being tracked on the web. There are many reasons behind your choice of browsing the web anonymously, but usually, the main reason is because you want to keep your privacy safe.

Be it the local internet cafe, or using someone else’s computer, browsing the web anonymously has hence become a huge hassle. If you want to do some research and you don’t want other people to find out about it because at the end, it’s a matter of confidentiality and safety. When we mention privacy, it includes a big range of things that you might want to hide, but basically, you want to hide from other people you don’t know or from the web itself.

So here are some of the tricks using which you can easily browse the web without the fear of being identified or tracked because scam messages and hackers are everywhere, and probably, you don’t want to be hacked or get a virus from the web.

Read more

VPN Vietnam: Access the net secure and without restrictions

Whenever it comes to the internet security, the first thing comes in mind is cyber laws, the laws imposed and facilitated by the government of a particular nation, in this case Vietnam. This cyber laws plays an important role in preventing information leaks, security in information exchanging and providing safe transactions. As government plays an important role here so it also can surpass the some internet rights in the name of the cyber laws. Many of the social sites are blocked in Vietnam and also the government is keeping a trace over the emails. The government also put some bloggers behind the bars on expressing their views on political and religious agendas.

Also, according to a recent report of Kaspersky, a software firm, Vietnam is at high risk of cyber attacks

Now the question arises, what if you are in Vietnam and working on a very important and sensitive project, in which the accessibility of blocked site is essential and at the same time you have to deal with the security concerns?
Well the answers to all your concerns is VPN (Virtual Private Network)
Read more

Review of PureVPN

PureVPN uses a comprehensive approach of data encryption over internet providing freedom without compromising on data security and privacy of user. You are left with no worries about what you are doing online or who is keeping a check of your data activity. PureVPN protects your online browsing activities and keeps your identity anonymous as it encrypts the transmitted data and then re-routes it from its own remote servers. Thus, it helps you to access restricted websites from any location without the information getting intercepted and keeping your network location completely hidden.

PureVPN leaves a mark for itself with great speed, comprehensive installation and guidelines of its software. Despite some loopholes like absence of “Zero Logging” it caters the needs of majority of its users. You can get fastest streaming over all devices with excellent placing of servers worldwide. You can extend your business by securing digital media via hidden IPs and encrypting the communication channel used by the personnel. It has a wide global network coverage having 500 VPN servers which are located in 141 countries.

PureVPN Features

Read more

What is a proxy? All you need to know about using a Proxy

What is a Proxy?

Proxy is basically a purposeful computer which serves as an intermediary hub between the endpoint device, like a computer or laptop, and the server which is being used to request a service from the user. All the internet requests gets processed through proxy servers. By letting the user to connect via one of these servers, the host computer can send the user requests to proxy server which in turn processes the request and finally returns the required result to the user which he wanted. So, in this manner proxy is actually serving as an intermediate between the user machine and all the remaining computers over the internet. These servers are generally located at user’s own system, or between destination servers on the internet and user’s system.

Proxy server remains invisible to the user. All requests sent over internet and their returned responses to the user appears to be associated with addressed Internet server. A proxy can exist as a firewall server on the same machine or it can be configured on an entirely different server, which in turn can forward the requests via firewall.

Read more

What is Ransomware and how to avoid it

What is Ransomware

Ransomware is a type of malware used for blocking a specific user from accessing data on his own computer and also disabling the functionalities which can unblock the restricted access to data. Then, the author of the malware will demand a ransom amount which the user needs to pay in order to restore the access to blocked data. For any normal user having only some basic understanding of Computer and Internet, Ransomware can be considered as one of the most vulnerable and dangerous type of malware. If a user gets infected with it, he has no other choice than paying the ransom amount which can be up to few hundred dollars.

The Ransomware malware program is designed in such a way that it will frequently lock down a computer, followed by display of several images related to law enforcement in order to frighten the user and extort some money from the targeted victim. Some ransomware will not only lock your computer, but also encrypt your files, after which you won’t have any access to those files.
Read more