4 ways to back up your data securely
Photos, documents, saved video games, and old emails: We accumulate a lot of data throughout our lives. And just like our parents’ attic, our...
Girl Scouts are our next wave of cybersecurity experts
Do you know what badges Girl Scouts are collecting these days? It’s not just Hiker, Making Friends, and Cookie CEO anymore. With a strong...
PGP is still pretty good for privacy
Many privacy advocates use PGP (GNU Privacy Guard/GPG in its open source form) to encrypt, sign, and verify data and text of all sorts.
PGP...
Why you should use a unique password for every online account
To improve user security, ExpressVPN now asks users to create a password that they don’t use elsewhere, and it must contain:
At least 8...
Upset about Facebook? You should be more worried about your ISP
Sure, Facebook’s data policies are bad, but they pale in comparison to your ISP’s (internet service provider). With Congress recently passing legislation that allows...
Here’s why your printer is a tattletale
When you print, scan, or copy a document at home or in the office, it might look like any other document to your eyes....
Not even a scandal will stop Facebook from harvesting your data
News of Facebook’s role in Cambridge Analytica’s collection of millions of user profiles leading up to the 2016 US general elections paints a worrisome...
What are DNS leaks and how to prevent them
A DNS leak is when your VPN connection reveals information about your DNS requests to a third party. Here's how ExpressVPN stops DNS leaks.
5 defiant, worrying, or outright bizarre Edward Snowden statements
Like the great Nostradamus, Edward Snowden has been a purveyor of the future, signaling time and again signs of things to come. Since joining...
4 guides that will help improve your digital security
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