Day: July 28, 2016

Review: HideMyAss

HideMyAss has been a popular provider of VPN services for more than 10 years, but is now owned by AVG Technologies. The company offers 940+ servers in 350+ locations across 190+ countries, many more than the bulk of the competition. Load balancing allows HideMyAss to recommend the server with the minimum load in any location,

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Review: Hide.me

EVenture Limited subsidiary Hide.me is a Malaysia-based company which has been providing VPN services since 2011. Hide.me’s free plan offers a reasonable 2GB data transfer, although the extremely limited server choice (Canada, Netherlands, Singapore), “best effort” bandwidth and one device limit might put you off. Registration requires an email address, too. Want to try Hide.me?

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Review: ExpressVPN

ExpressVPN is a small British Virgin Islands-based provider of VPN services. The company’s products are eye-wateringly expensive, from the $12.95 (£9.96, AU$17.43) for a one-off month option to the $99.95 (£77, AU$135) plan for annual payments. We browsed the feature list looking for an explanation, but couldn’t really find one. Sure, the 130+ servers in

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Security Sessions: Generational differences in security, privacy attitudes

In the latest episode of Security Sessions, CSO Editor-in-Chief Joan Goodchild chats with Ted Harrington of Independent Security Evaluators about how different generations (mainly millennials and Baby Boomers) view both security and privacy matters. These differences and attitudes can have a big effect on how companies train them on proper security procedures. Source: Security

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Review: CyberGhost Premium

CyberGhost is a Romanian-based company which has been providing comprehensive and capable VPN services for several years. The current range starts with a baseline free account. This has relatively poor performance, and includes ads, but you don’t have to register to use it, there are no specific bandwidth or data caps, and it also acts

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Review: CactusVPN

Moldova-based CactusVPN has ‘only’ been around since 2011, but tailored products and keen pricing has won the product plenty of attention. There’s no “one-size-fits-all” plan, for instance. Instead the company offers a “US VPN” (four servers in the USA), a “UK VPN” (six servers in the UK), a “Liberty VPN” (four servers in the Netherlands,

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