Tailscale connects all your devices, servers, routers, and locations together into a single, encrypted, virtual network, authenticated using your existing 2-factor auth system (like GSuite, Office 365, or Okta), and with no need for special router hardware or infrastructure. It’s a bit like a VPN, but without the key management or server, and with theweiterlesen

Glenn Fleishman sprach mit Will Strafach – diesem Will Strafach – über sein iOS-Firewall-Startup. Windows and Mac users can install firewalls and anti-malware software that, in addition to handling more nefarious stuff, also block apps and traffic known to siphon user data off for unwanted purposes. Browser plug-ins such as Ghostery, 1Blocker, and many others canweiterlesen

Since 2016, Facebook has been paying users ages 13 to 35 up to $20 per month plus referral fees to sell their privacy by installing the iOS or Android “Facebook Research” app. Facebook even asked users to screenshot their Amazon order history page. The program is administered through beta testing services Applause, BetaBound and uTestweiterlesen

Any time you are on a public internet connection people can see what sites you visit. Even worse, your Internet Service Provider is very possibly selling all of your browsing history to the highest bidder. We have a tool called 1.1.1.1 which makes it easy to get a faster, more private, Internet experience, but it’sweiterlesen

Earlier this month, Apple officials informed Facebook that the app violated new rules outlined in June designed to limit data collection by app developers, the person familiar with the situation said. Apple informed Facebook that Onavo also violated a part of its developer agreement that prevents apps from using data in ways that go beyondweiterlesen

Nachdem die Facebook-App unter dem Menüpunkt „Protect“ seine Schnüffler-Software „Onavo VPN Security“ verlinkt, hat sich der Sicherheitsforscher Will Strafach die Datenpakete angeschaut (soweit das möglich ist). I found that Onavo Protect uses a Packet Tunnel Provider app extension, which should consistently run for as long as the VPN is connected, in order to periodically sendweiterlesen

Earlier this year China’s MIIT announced that all developers offering VPNs must obtain a license from the government.  We have been required to remove some VPN apps in China that do not meet the new regulations. These apps remain available in all other markets where they do business. „Apple issues statement regarding removal of unlicensedweiterlesen

F-Secure ist in dieser Woche erneut mein ‚Sponsor der Woche‘. Und weil das Thema VPN, die Möglichkeit sich verschlüsselt und anonymisiert auch in fremden WiFi-Hotspots zu bewegen, in der letzten Woche auf reges Interesse stieß, will ich heute noch einmal ausführlicher darauf eingehen. Das Datenvolumen unserer Mobilfunkverträge wächst – von echten Flatrates sind wir dennochweiterlesen