New GoTrusted Review On VPNPick

GoTrusted has a new review available on VPNPick.com. You can find the review through the link here or by going directly to their website at www.VPNPick.com. We're very happy to be included on the site and hope our customers (and those of you thinking about joining us!) find the review helpful.

GoTrusted Review Available on Security Catch

We'd like to let our customers and potential customer know of a new review that's available for the GoTrusted service from Security Catch. We want our customers to be fully informed when making the important decision of which VPN provider to use so we welcome sites like Security Catch that can provide potential customers a third-party perspective on the service we offer.

Happy Holidays from the GoTrusted Team!

All of us here at GoTrusted just wanted to wish each and everyone of you wonderful and safe holiday season!  It's been a great year.  We hope you all are enjoying this time of year, and if it happens to not be your holiday season, we hope you're enjoying December all the same.

We look forward to continuing to provide the level of service our customers have come to expect from us in the coming New Year!

Happy Holidays to you and yours from the GoTrusted Team!

New Mac Version Available

Version 2.2.6.2 is now live for Mac users! This version has some new updates that should further improve stability, especially in certain regions.

You can find the link to download under your account settings or by going here.

As always, GoTrusted support is available if you run into any issues!

Microsoft Releases Aggregate of Law Enforcement Requests

Microsoft has released their latest Law Enforcement Requests Report. It gives an aggregate of how many user's and accounts have been released to law enforcement agencies in the last six months. This is the second report Microsoft has released with their first being in March

The total number of customer data requests was 37,196 totaling some 66,539 accounts across all Microsoft services, including Skype. This number reflects requests made officially for the first half of 2013, but does not include requests pertaining to national security. There are many requests from dozens of countries, but the main concentration of requests comes from five countries. The US, Turkey, Germany, France and the United Kingdom. These five countries make up 73% of the requests made. 

You can read more about the report and see future reports on Microsoft's site.

Tor Network Attacked by Malware

Wired is reporting that the Tor network has recently come under attack this past Sunday.  Malware started popping up on multiple hosting sites over the network in the morning in something known as a 'Drive-by' hack attack.

Code was being delivered through a known Java exploit in Firefox and affects Windows users. The code would gather information on the users machine while they were connected to the Tor network.

The code was designed to grab a user's MAC address (a unique hardware identifier for the computer's network or WiFi card) and the target's Windows host name.

The Tor network uses proxies to try to provide anonymity to users. The concern is that the proxy points are run on a volunteer basis allowing anyone to run as a proxy point. This opens the network to break downs that can result in breaches of user information. This is something that full encryption running on the GoTrusted VPN service is not open to as all our VPN servers are secured, both physically and via encryption.

FTC plans mobile security event for June 4th

The Federal Trade Commission will be holding a public event on June 4th in an effort to make the public more aware of the emerging and lingering security threats in the mobile device ecosystem.

The event will be held in the agency's Washington, D.C. conference center and will highlight data collection, advertising, and other topics such as emerging mobile threats, potential infrastructure issues, and authentication strategies for mobile devices.

Of course VPN Services are becoming more of a hot topic, especially in the mobile ecosystem, so we'll no doubt be hearing how they will increasingly come into play as privacy becomes an ever looming issue and people look for ways to protect themselves.

Safer Internet Day

It's that time of year again. Safer Internet Day is today and we have some more tips for protecting you and your loved ones while online.

1. Use different passwords

 It sounds like it could be confusing, but this is one of the best ways to make sure that if only one account is compromised instead of all of them. Saving you a lot of headaches in the end. 

2. Choose strong passwords 

Using password as your password, if you didn't know, is asking for someone to just help themselves to your account. Avoid using your name, birthdate or other similarly obvious password combinations. It's also a good idea to change your passwords every six months.

3. Use a VPN Service

Using a VPN Service is a great way to protect information you are sending and receiving. Services like GoTrusted encrypt your data so it is unreadable to anyone else, but the intended website. Even if someone is somehow able to nab the data they would have no way to look at it. This can keep you safer online whether you're at home or at the coffee shop down the way.

4. Don't reveal to much on social networks 

Be careful what you are sharing and who you are sharing it with. Information you post can easily be used by hackers to figure out security questions and passwords. This also stretches into reality as well. Publicly posting that you're out of town for the week could be an invitation for burglars.

5. Protect your Computer and Browser

This one is an obvious one. You should always be running the latest version of your anti-virus, operating system, and VPN. Making sure your'e up to date keeps you up to speed with current viruses that are circulating and closes known bugs in your operating system that could be exploited.

6. Secure your wireless connection

This means setting a password and changing your network ID from the default. How many times have you seen open networks named 'Linksys' or 'Netgear'? Leaving your connection open like that leaves you vulnerable. It's possible for people to connect to your network and look at any device connected to it. 

7. Shop at safe websites

Always look for the padlock next to the site address and that it has HTTPS in the url. This shows the site is secured. 

8. Think before clicking links

Scammers and phishers are getting smarter and more creative all the time. Anyone can make a complete copy of a website easily. Be careful with the links you click in an email. If they seem suspicious, don't click them! Receive an email from Amazon about your order that you never placed? It's always safer to navigate to the main site and log-in than it is through an email link. These are just some ways scammers are trying to get your login credentials. 

Safer Internet Day is organized by Insafe during February as a way to promote safety online.

Online Tracking and Ways to Prevent it.

A recent article on http://www.abine.com about current online tracking practices highlights just how much information we may be giving out without our knowledge.

They have a nice infographic showing who may be tracking you, as well as some of the most common and simplest ways these companies track consumers.

Reasons for tracking are generally for advertisers to try and target people specifically and to build consumer ‘profiles’, but most people worry that these reasons are not always on the up and up.

In a questionnaire to Wall Street Journal readers, 60% said they worry ‘Tremendously’ about the loss of online privacy.

There are, of course, some simple steps you can sue to combat unwanted tracking and profiling. These include: Making sure your social networking sites privacy settings are set correctly, delete your information from companies that publicly sell it, running a free browser add-ons like DoNotTrackMe, and running a VPN like GoTrusted.

Running a VPN service will make you anonymous and prevent sites from targeting you by your geographic location as well as keeping you safe from sites that may try to view your browsing or buying habits online.

theVPNreviewer.com Gives GoTrusted's VPN High Marks

GoTrusted gets a great score on theVPNreviwer.com - with the industry website giving our service four-and-a-half out of five stars.

The review is chock full of information about using the GoTrusted VPN Service.  The article has lots of speed tests and other details that add up to a good experience with the review concluding that GoTrusted was "a reliable and fast VPN provider at a good price."

Check out the review, then, if you haven't already, check out our free trial.

Mountain Lion Now Supported in GoTrusted VPN v2242

GoTrusted has released GoTrusted Secure Tunnel version 2.2.4.2 with VPN support for the new Apple Macintosh Mountain Lion operating system (OSX 10.8).  

The new Mac VPN Service software is available for Download on the GoTrusted website by new and existing users.  As in previous versions, the new GoTrusted VPN software provides one-button operation for data encryption, network security, and identity protection.... just click and your Mac is secure on any Internet connection!

GoTrusted VPN Hong Kong Servers Are Live

GoTrusted has made live our new high-speed Hong Kong secure server location to better serve the Asia VPN Service market.

As is usual when using the GoTrusted VPN service, we take care of the hard work.  When connecting, the GoTrusted Macintosh and Windows VPN software will automatically select the Hong Kong servers if they will provide the best speed from your connecting country.  So there's nothing to do to use the new servers if 'Asia Region' is selected in Settings.

GoTrusted Released New Mac VPN Software

We're pleased to announce a new Macintosh version of GoTrusted Secure Tunnel v2.2.3.0 was released today. The new software fixes issues in recent OSX updates by Apple that caused errors on some systems when accessing the GoTrusted VPN service network. It also fixes an Airport reset issue upon disconnect on the latest Lion OSX versions.

Try it by downloading the new Mac version on our Download Page... and let us know how you like it on our Support page. Mac VPN has never been easier!