A good VPN can protect your privacy and data, as long as you use it correctly. Here’s how to choose the right one, cut through the marketing lingo, and get the most out of it.

BBC iPlayer is geo-restricted to the UK, but anyone can access this free streaming platform with a VPN. These tools can hide ...

Whether you opt for bare metal servers or virtual machines, you'll need a rock-solid distro. These are my four go-to favorites.

ExpressVPN is a dependable and thoughtfully designed VPN for everyday browsing and streaming. Most importantly, its strong ...

Remember when dropping a proxy into your torrent client felt like a secret handshake? In 2026 streaming giants block whole IP ...

The new version of OpenVPN brings multi-socket support for servers and revised Windows features. Several security vulnerabilities have been fixed.

Mullvad is that rare VPN that's still content to be a VPN and not an all-inclusive security suite. No shade to NordVPN or Surfshark, whose extra features are generally quite good, but it's nice to see ...

NordVPN uses military-grade AES-256 encryption with OpenVPN and ChaCha20 with their NordLynx protocol. But interestingly, ...

A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login authentication. Researchers at Canada-based Flare Systems, who discovered the botnet, ...

For the longest time, Linux was considered to be geared specifically for developers and computer scientists. Modern distributions are far more general purpose now -- but that does ...

This step-by-step guide shows Linux users how to secure cloud-stored files with VeraCrypt by encrypting data locally, keeping ...