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The Best App Lock Tools for Android: 7 Reviewed and Rated

Let’s face it: Your whole life is on your smartphone, isn’t it? With more of us putting more and more of ourselves in apps, it’s well past time we all started looking at using encryption to our advantage. One way you can do this is using a VPN like IPVanish, which has a great app for Android, whenever you connect to public WiFi with your smartphone.

Another useful form of encryption comes from app lock tools like the 10 we’ll look at in this article. They can protect you, with encryption, if someone does manage to get into your smartphone via digital or physical means.
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Identity Theft Protection: Online and Offline Tactics

Identity theft is no small thing. The FTC estimates that 11.7 million people suffer from some form of identity theft in the US each year. The FTC did the math, that’s around 5% of the population getting hardcore pwned.

How this can happens varies, but why this happens always has the same reason: At one point you were not careful enough with a key piece of your information. Don’t feel bad, it happens all too often, especially with social media giving everyone a digital platform to share on. Let’s help you out with some identity theft protection tips now.
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The Worst Internet Security Breach Incidents of the Past

With the recent LinkedIn hack causing worry all over the world as potentially 117 million accounts being exposed, interest in online security is once again on people’s minds. Why it ever left is an even bigger question, especially after you read through these 10 online security #fails which have been happening since the ‘online’ world started!
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The 2 Types of VPN Networks, How They Work, and Tunnelling

There are many different things which you can learn about VPNs. There’s our post on the different types of encryption, for example. But another nitty-gritty detail is what types of VPN networks there are out there, and how they work.

Get ready to learn about:

  • The concept of tunneling encrypted data
  • Client VPNs
  • Network VPNs

The more you know about VPNs, the better you’ll feel about how they protect your privacy, data, and give you the security you deserve.
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Privacy and Security on the Internet: Advanced Tools Anyone Can Use

Privacy and security on the Internet is becoming a bigger and bigger issue all the time. Unfortunately, people are trying to take back their privacy and security online …and have no idea what they’re doing. This leads to confusion, vulnerabilities, hacking, and things like the new Opera VPN (which isn’t as advertised).

Let’s take a moment to really look at privacy and security tools that you can use on your computer that will actually help you. Some of them are a bit advanced, but you can learn how to do them with a bit of reading.
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The Best Free Online Security Tools to use with a VPN

If I’ve learned anything in my years of online security writing and research, it’s that if you want something good you have to pay for it. This is particularly true for VPNs and virus protection. Yes, I have written a review of the best free VPNs, but those are not ideal in comparison to the ten best paid options.

There are some instances, however, when not for profit companies, or companies which are for profit but looking to attract new clients with free software, do create free online security tools that are good. Let’s look at them now, and let’s protect you better online after you’ve chosen a VPN to handle your encryption.
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Advanced Online Security & Privacy with VPNs that ANYONE Can Use!

VPNs were once a tool only used by very few people. This was back when everyone just assumed that your online security would be taken care of for you. With all of the hacks going on lately, against even the once thought of most secure online companies, we know that this is not the case.

This has lead to many people starting to use VPN services, but are they using them to their fullest potential? The case is often a big ‘NO’ as new users are simply downloading their VPN client and connecting. They’re not doing everything they can to make their experience more anonymous, and as secure as possible.
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