The Android platform has an outstanding built-in VPN connection tool. Jack Wallen describes how Android users can set up and connect to a VPN with the help of a PPTP VPN. One way smartphones help us ...

Security researchers released two tools at the Defcon security conference that can be used to crack the encryption of any PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) and WPA2-Enterprise (Wireless ...

Hey Networking Matrix, wanted to bounce this off of you guys because I'm kinda stumped. first: I realize PPTP is considered insecure these days. This isn't my own connection, I'm trying to help my ...

A VPN ( or Virtual Private Network) is a way of creating a secure connection ‘to’ and ‘from’ a network or a computer. The VPN uses strong encryption and restricted, private data access which keeps the ...

A VPN is simply an encrypted connection between two computers, each side running VPN software. The two sides, however, are not equal. The software that you, as the user of a VPN service deal with, is ...

Normally, when we connect our devices to the internet via WiFi or ethernet, or mobile data, our devices directly connect to the Internet Service providers without anything in the middle. Our entire ...

Despite its age, it is still used as the primary authentication mechanism by most PPTP virtual private network (VPN) clients. MS-CHAPv2 has been known to be vulnerable to dictionary-based brute force ...