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: […] Written by FOSS Post Team October 10, 2020October 10, 2020
5 Linux VPN Providers To Secure your Connections With 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 […] Written by FOSS Post Team September 13, 2020September 16, 2020
Use Encryption on Linux 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 […] Written by FOSS Post Team September 11, 2020September 11, 2020
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, […] Written by FOSS Post Team 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 […] Written by FOSS Post Team 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 […] Written by FOSS Post Team August 29, 2020August 29, 2020
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 […] Written by FOSS Post Team 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 […] Written by M.Hanny Sabbagh June 8, 2020September 3, 2020
9 Open Source Password Managers to Secure Yourself With What is a Password Manager? A password manager is a special program that stores all the credentials of the websites/services you use, encrypts them or store them securely in another way, and then allows you to access those passwords any time you want using what’s known as a “master password”. Without the master password, no […] Written by Simon James July 28, 2019September 3, 2020
