Cybersecurity is something that affects all of us, because we take care of so much of our business on-line. It affects how we do business as normal computer users, and it's also an important part of IT administration and security administration. On top of all that, is the problem of on-line privacy. And, those of us who work as either IT administrators or security administrators often find ourselves having to sell management on the idea of spending money to fund IT security upgrades. In this video, we look at an article from ZDNet that outlines some of the current problems that we have in the cybersecurity space, and what we can do about them. Purchase link for my "Mastering Linux Security and Hardening" book: https://www.packtpub.com/networking-and-servers/mastering-linux-security-and-hardening Purchase link for the companion video course: https://www.packtpub.com/networking-and-servers/mastering-linux-security-and-hardening-video ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvtbbrwYso

Virtual Private Networks aren't always so private -- Today, the BeginLinux Guru talks about how certain virtual private network providers don't always do a good job of safeguarding your Internet privacy. Last year, NordVPN was caught in a user data leak, and today we see some Hong Kong-based VPN s have been caught leaking VPN user activity logs. We'll then look at some possible roll-your-own VPN solutions involving OpenVPN on a cloud server. Original article: https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/17/ufo_vpn_database/ Purchase links for my "Mastering Linux Security and Hardening--Second Edition book: From Packt Publishing: https://www.packtpub.com/cloud-networking/mastering-linux-security-and-hardening-second-edition From Amazon: https://amzn.to/2WGP6mX ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBBPC18JEn8