5 Popular Free and Open Source VPN’s Everybody needs a VPN. People spend most of their time online and send critical information over the internet. Being safe online involves using many technologies, and VPN is one of them. An open source VPN software can help protect your identity online by encrypting the data you send on the network to keep it safe […] July 4, 2021July 4, 2021
Encrypt Cloud Storage With Open Source Cryptomator Most users are probably using one of the famous cloud storage services such as Google Drive and Dropbox to store their files & data and sync it between devices. But did you know that you could also encrypt your cloud stroage folders for more security? Encrypting your files and folders is a good idea because: […] October 10, 2020October 10, 2020
The 5 Best Linux VPN Providers VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a communication tunnel between your devices and remote connection servers to bypass your local ISP censorship and local network monitoring. The working concept is that you redirect all your Internet traffic via these tunnels to access the Internet rather than directly using your ISP, and in this way, ISPs ability […] September 13, 2020April 30, 2022
Linux Encryption to Harden Your Data Security Encryption is one of the most amazing technologies to secure data. It prevents any 3rd-party from accessing it without having the key that unlocks the encrypted data, and hence everybody can secure their files simply via encrypting it with good methods. Encryption is used everywhere; in HTTPS protocol to transfer secure data between your browser […] September 11, 2020January 20, 2022
7 Important Privacy-Preserving Extensions for Chromium-Based Browsers According to StatCounter, 70% of all desktop users worldwide use Google Chrome as their default Internet browser. A sad fact, as Chrome is a proprietary web browser that does not respect the user privacy by default. Chromium however, is %100 open source and licensed under the BSD license. Chrome extensions do work on Chromium. Still, […] September 1, 2020September 1, 2020
Break Free from Google’s Tracking With Ungoogled-Chromium For those who don’t know, Google Chrome is built on the top of the Google Chromium browser, which is an open source browser released under BSD license having almost the same features as in Google Chrome. Google’s approach is to add new features and tests to Chromium gradually before they land in the closed-source Google […] August 30, 2020September 7, 2020
Secure Your Online Accounts With 2FA And Open Source Two-Factor Authentication or Multiple Factor Authentication, is the process of using two or more ways of proving identity to online services rather than just using the password alone (password = 1 factor, password + mobile code = 2 factors… And so on). It is a security measure designed to prevent attackers from gaining access to […] August 29, 2020June 15, 2021
7 Privacy-Preserving Addons for Firefox You Should Have Firefox is such a great web browser to save privacy by default; It blocks trackers, 3rd-party cookies, fingerprint trackers and cryptomining scripts by default. But even with this, the browser is still in need of few extra addons to enhance users’ privacy. We’ll show them for you in less than 2 minutes to get you […] August 28, 2020August 29, 2020
5 Awesome Command Line Open Source Password Managers Many people seem to like the idea of using the command line for more daily and routinely tasks. The command line is an indeed powerful way to do many tasks quickly without having to waste time in dealing with GUIs. If you are one of those people who like the command line that much, then […] June 8, 2020December 16, 2021
Top 9 Open Source Password Managers [2022] Many open source software have started to take a good position in many sectors, such as open source ERP, open source speech recognition and open source survey software. However, some of the most important of these are the security and privacy sectors. People simply don’t want to entrust proprietary for-profit solutions with their data, and […] July 28, 2019January 10, 2022