Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you ever avoided checking your email over that free wireless access point for fear of someone snarfing your password? Secure, ...

"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it is the light of the oncoming train" ~ Robert Lowell. Oh yes, another good quote. This post is on SSH tunneling, or as I like to call it 'Poor Man's VPN'.

I'm trying to create an encrypted tunnel from a Windows box to a Linux box using Putty. Actually I have been able to create the tunnel successfully. Putty creates a tunnel from localhost:5500 to ...

Secure shell can overcome a number of networking deficiencies. Jack Wallen illustrates how you can use SSH port forwarding to create encrypted tunnels for remote and local forwarding. The ssh system ...

If you are in an environment that disallows the use of SSH and forces the use of an HTTP proxy, it is possible to use that HTTP proxy as a transport for SSH. Vincent Danen explains how to use the ...

Once upon a time the thought of a firewalled, cordoned, and censored web was enough to send chills up the spine of any internet user. As the years have passed, however, our sentiment has softened. A ...

I have two 10.4 Macs, one of which is running the SOCKS proxy "nylon". I would like to create an SSH tunnel connecting the client Mac to the proxy Mac to browse the internet. Here is the command I ...

Recently at our local (Phoenix) Free Software Stammtisch, we were talking about security. I was surprised to find that no one else realized you can ssh safely across a compromised host to another ...

Once upon a time, I was doing on-site support for a hardware install at a hotel a few years ago. The remote tech’s remote desktop software didn’t want to play with my Linux laptop, so he couldn’t get ...