Cybersecurity & Privacy
KeepSolid VPN Unlimited Review
VPN Unlimited is one of the most popular VPN services available and for good reason. It is fast, reliable and competitively priced (deal below). VPN Unlimited is a USA based provider and offers termination in more than 30 countries (with multiple locations in most countries). VPN Unlimited has good platform support (Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android) and very well written clients. <img src="https://ekiledjian2.micro.blog/uploads/2025/d1dfbf0fa8.jpg" alt=""> Above is a screenshot of the protection menu option on their IOS client. When set to High security, they (in addition to VPN protection) automatically add anti-malware, tracking blocking and ad blocking.
VyprVPN Review
VyprVPN owns and manages its own networks and servers. During my recent VPN testing shoot-out, VyprVPN consistently ranked as one of the fastest VPN providers out there. In addition to raw speed, they have an incredible list of supported clients from traditional PCs (Mac, Windows, Linux), to routers (DDWRT, OpenWRT, AsusWRT), smartphones (iPhone, Android, Blackphone, Network Attached Storage (QNAP, Synology), TVs and the Anonabox. Contrast this to other popular VPN solutions like UnlimitedVPN, which only supports a small number of custom made clients.
How to protect your PC from infection
Think of all the valuable data your PC contains (pictures, files, invoices, contacts, etc). Now imagine losing all of that data Virus' are still a thing but you should be more worried about ransomware, worms and all of the other digital creepy crawlies roaming the net looking to make you their next victim. Go read my article entitled "How to secure Windows 10". Backup everything, then back it up again In 2012, I wrote an article entitled "The best way to protect your data - images, music, documents"
Your cloud provider is making you a target
Phishing is a powerful and effective tool and a favorite in the threat actor arsenal. So what happens when your cloud provider gives threat actors a roadmap to steal from you? A couple of weeks ago, Workday sent a security advisory to its customers regarding a phishing campaign targeting its customers. Although details of the attack campaign are light, here is what I believe is happening based on discussions on various darknet forums. What was the Workday phishing attack model?
Michael Moore launches Trumpileaks using strong encryption tools
[caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“2500”] Image by g4ll4is used under creative commons license [/caption] American politics is an extremely divisive issue and I will not be taking any sides in this debate. The purpose of this article isn't to promote any sides but rather to talk about how encrypted communication tools are being used. <img src="https://ekiledjian2.micro.blog/uploads/2025/10da371f56.jpg" alt=""> Michael Moore launched a sub-page to his domain called Trumpileaks. The purpose is to give whistle blowers a "secure mechanism" to share information. The website recommends a bunch of encrypted messaging apps to share information via the web or by traditional mail.
Downloaded over a billion email addresses and passwords this weekend
I am a CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) for a major tech company and manage people, budgets and strategy. But the security researcher in me never went away. Over the weekend our intelligence service downloaded 3 separate dumps totalling over 1B leaked credentials (the largest of which was the 400M+ credentials.) The smallest one was a Pastebin dump that contained 6,500 email addresses with cleartext passwords (I was able to verify 3 email/passwords listed in the list by contacting people I recognized on the list).
2017 has started as a busy year for hackers
2017 is shaping up to be a busy year for Information Security professionals. The last major hack was HipChat from Atlassian. Surprisingly most consumers still "don't care" about their data security and millions have bad security hygiene. Visualizing the hacks To make the data more palatable, firms have tried to create visually appealing representation of these hacks. The first is called the World's Biggest Data Breaches and provides a nice easy to understand list since 2004. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1179"]<img src="https://ekiledjian2.
Review of encrypted email provider Protonmail
Why would anyone use Protonmail instead of Gmail or Hotmail? SECURITY Email is inherently insecure and if you are a political dissident whose online communications can mean the difference between living and dying, don't use email. For everyone else looking for an easy and secure email solution, keep reading about Protonmail. “Everyone needs to understand that SMTP was not designed to be secure and will always have security weaknesses.” We use email because we don't have a choice and everyone agrees it won't be displaced tomorrow.
Review of SpiderOak encrypted online storage
Right or wrong, Edward Snowden has become the poster child for online privacy. He has been adamant that anyone interested in true online security should stay away from the name brand online services : Dropbox, Facebook, Google, etc. Trust No One Security Before we talk about SpiderOak, this is a good time to write about TNO (Trust No One Security model). This is a philosophy that dictates that anytime security is needed, strong encryption must be applied and the keys to that encryption must be kept in the hands of the user.
Encryption isn't just for terrorists
It seems every time there is a terrorist attack, governments around the world use it as an opportunity to chip away at encryption. The latest attack was the UK Home secretary, Amber Rudd, who called WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption "completely unacceptable". She then adds that there should be “no hiding place for terrorists”. Encryption is publicly known mathematics and there is no way to put the "cat back in the bag". If encryption is banned for law abiding Joe and Jane public, it makes everyone less safe but terrorists will simply use their resources and public encryption libraries to write their own encrypted programs and do their evil work.