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Coronavirus and Working from Home
What is it and why is it so bad?
SARS-CoV-2 is the name of a virus that causes the current pandemic disease COVID-19. It’s a type of virus named for the appearance of a crown--thus corona--around the virus particles under the microscope. The virus is genetically similar to a strain of bat virus, and it is a distant relation of the 2003 SARS virus.
However, the most important feature of the virus is how incredibly easily it spreads. This is possibly due to the fact that people ar
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Mar 19th 2020
How to Increase Your VPN Speed
Internet speed is one of the most sought after elements of the VPN community. There are many ways to increase your VPN speed: different VPN methods, VPN protocols, alternative cipher methods, and alternate ports to name a few. All of these factors can increase VPN speed, some more than others.
A key ingredient to great VPN speed is the processor of the device in which the VPN client is being used. When you use a VPN application on your desktop or laptop computer, you generally get great
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Feb 20th 2020
How to Improve Your Home Network Security
In many situations, once a
Wireless router has been purchased and installed, we look for a hidden or
secret spot in our home to hide it. Once all of the devices including
computers, TVs, smartphones, tablets are connected, we forget that the router
even exists. That is wrong and this article will reveal to you why.Nowadays the WiFi router is one of the most important
devices at home because of all the devices that are connected
to the internet and we spend lots of time online. However, it
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Jan 24th 2020
What is WireGuard?
Briefly, WireGuard is a new type of VPN protocol designed from the ground up for performance and flexibility. All the juicy technical details are available in this white paper. We’ll summarize some of the important details of that paper and explain them as non-technically as possible.
What even is a VPN?
For quite a few years the two available VPN protocols were PPTP and OpenVPN, with L2TP being a sort of awkward hybrid of emerging IPSEC technology and PPTP that lurked in the
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Jan 16th 2020
Password Management: A User Guide
Users often hear rules left and right about the shape and content of passwords: so many characters; must contain this or that character or kind of character, or not too many of these in a row; don't use common passwords, sports teams, personal identification like birthdays or names; and so on. However, users rarely hear much about managing their passwords. How do you remember that 130 character bank password that probably is both unspeakable and halfway untypeable? How do you keep access to each
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Dec 16th 2019