Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Senior Technology Editor. He has a BFA in Film & TV from NYU, where he specialized in writing. Jake has been helping people with their technology professionally since ...

If you’ve been on the internet in the past couple of years, you’ve surely seen mentions of a VPN for Windows and how it can help protect your privacy online. Despite competition from Apple, the ...

I use OpenVPN on my laptop (with OpenVPN Conenct), both to access my home network when I'm away from home (via OPNSense Firewall) and my office network (Watchguard firewall - and I realised that the ...

A recent Windows security update is causing some VPN connections to fail, Microsoft has said. The company is working on a resolution. The KB5036893 update, known as the April security update, was ...

A virtual private network (VPN) is your digital disguise online. By funnelling your PC’s connection through an encrypted tunnel to a remote server, the best VPNs render your online activity invisible ...