Q: what is the best vpn for OS 10

THe question really does not make a lot of sense.

A VPN is not something you install on a computer. It's  a service you connect to, as such, there is no best for a specific type of computer.

What exactly are you wanting to accomplish with a VPN?

Usually a VPN is used to connect to a remote network and use its resources, such as printers and servers as if you were connected locally to them.

It does not make sense because, VPNs do not work like that. You specifically asked for a VPN for a MacBook Pro Running Yosemite. There's no computer specific best VPNs.  That is what does not make sense so i asked for a little bit of clarity.  Why is that such an offense?  We are not mind readers, when we request clarification its to be able to help you better. Not because we want to make fun of you .We are also volunteering our time here to help other users. We are under no obligation to answer any question, we do so because we want to. 

Yes the VPNs create a secure connection, to other networks. But if you are worried about your data security, having all your internet traffic go though some server somewhere that is completely out of your control would not be any more secure than a regular internet.

How do you know any traffic going through some VPN somewhere is secure?  The answer is you can't.  Thinking a public VPN will make your traffic more secure is wrong.

A common use case for people is to use a VPN on public hotspots in order to encrypt their traffic and protect themselves from these possibly compromised networks.  Unfortunately this is a bit of a funny paradox as the user has essentially just routed themselves from one shared network to another. In other words, if the VPN server you just connected to is insecure or compromised, you are now just as vulnerable as being on that public hotspot. Additionally many legacy protocols such as PPTP that are often used by VPN providers have major security flaws that would render the encryption provided by the VPN useless.

The only reason a VPN is more secure than open internet is because you trust the people managing the VPN you are using will not divulge your info. ie. an office provided VPN to access their resources. Public VPNs are in no way more secure than anything else.

Some reading:

https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/myths-about-vpn-logging-and-anonymity

http://blog.spotflux.com/debunking-the-myths-of-vpn-service-providers/

If you're looking for a VPN service to log into while you travel to get to your home data and network, OS X Server ($19.99) is a good offering. I have it running on a Mac Mini. And when I'm away from home, I can VPN from my rMBP and connect to my home network.

I don't know what VPN service is best.

brad951 wrote:

 

what is the best VPN for my MacBook Pro running Yosemite

One you control, and that won't route you through a VPN server that will inherently have access to what is probably your most sensitive network traffic, and particularly a VPN server that won't be used to log your activity.     Preferably one that doesn't inject advertisements or redirect your network traffic to other servers, or otherwise modify your network traffic.   You won't ever find that with a commercial VPN service, of course.  Short of running your own VPN server, that is.

Guys, I have seen many people are getting hacked while using their computer or laptop and recently my friend was also got hacked so after knowing this problem I also decided to use a VPN for mac to protect online privacy.

First, I started to use free VPN service but later I realized they are monitoring my activities and I was also facing blocking issues in various places for e.g. StumbleUpon and on apple iTunes store because those IP's I was using blacklisted IP's.

So, I started searching for which the best VPN for mac. I read different blog and forums in which people share their reviews about VPN providers then I came to know that Express and Buffered VPN are the most reliable VPN providers they are also good for other devices.

Any feedback about VPN providers is appreciated, as I have a very little information about it, So please share your opinion.

Thanks!

VPNs don't prevent you from getting hacked, and they're almost certainly not related to how your friends or the other folks got hacked.

VPNs do route your network traffic through a specified VPN server, usually using the same and usually well-known and thus intercept-able credentials, and which is a wonderful spot to eavesdrop.

If you're worried about your network traffic, switch to SSL/TLS on all connections — this is a VPN — between your client — mail, web browser, whatever — and the target server — mail server, web server, whatever.

If you're worried about security, look at what you're installing and enabling, what access you're granting, where you're getting your software from, and how you're managing the server.   A VPN service does nothing to address any of these details, for instance.   And if you've happened to download a compromised VPN client or your VPN service provider is sketchy or gets breached, you can end up worse off.

Well, Thanks for sharing the information about VPN but I have read on communities that every VPN has Protocols some of them are mentioned. Point-to-Point Tunneling (PPTP), Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) and Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) which allow the user to transfer its information through data encryption these protocols are really very effective in making your information secure. I also have visited some of the famous blogs like Huffington post and Mashable. After searching a lot I found a highly recommended best VPN for Mac, If you have more information about please share with reference.

In honor of your reference to HuffPo...  Some HuffPo headlines appended... 

SSL/TLS connections provide secure, encrypted connections, provide authentication that the target site is as intended, and support for SSL/TLS is part of most apps on OS X, iOS and other platforms.   Enable and use these on mail and all other connections.   Avoid telnet, FTP or other non-SSL/TLS connections.   Which simple checkbox will protect your email against hackers?

PPTP is insecure, and either L2TP via IPsec or an SSL VPN are preferred.   PPTP and L2TP have integrated clients.  SSL VPN is an add-on.     Which of these three VPN technologies exposes you to eavesdropping?

Keep system backups.  Time Machine or otherwise.  Preferably with Time Machine alternating across a couple of disks or running at a couple of locations.   One simple setup step allows you to recover from a security breach?

More than a few add-on security packages are themselves security vulnerabilities, and some of the packages appear to exist solely to collect your data, and some of the ad-on packages exist to install adware or worse.   Can add-on performance or security software leave you vulnerable?

But none of this protects you.  The VPN won't protect uou.   There is no panacea.  There's no panacea — set SSL/TLS, learn how to chose secure passwords, don't download and install anything you didn't go looking for.     Keep your software current.  Restrict the packages you install to the Mac App Store and identified developers.  Installing from torrents or cracked software or freebies can install malware or adware.   Mail links and mail attachments and Safari pop-ups and the rest of phishing are probably the most popular approaches the attackers are using in use in recent times — get folks to click on some link or open some doc or run some tool.   VPNs do nothing about these attacks, either.   Do folks install the malware themselves?

As for citations?    Available resources for hardening OS X include some more general presentations on Effective OS X security — read this one, if you're going to read just one — and additional general information on hardening OS X and on better understanding the sorts of malware that gets installed, and then there are more detailed sources of information such as a very detailed list from the US government National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and a somewhat higher-level list of suggestions for security, among others.  There are Apple guides available, but — with the most recent guides being from OS X 10.6 — they're a little dated.

Well these are the interesting information and I will be following SSL/TLS connections provide secure, encrypted connections, provide authentication that the target site is as intended, and support for SSL/TLS is part of most apps on OS X, iOS, and other platforms.

I will be taking measures effectively.

were mac computers part of this hacked equation or were these Windows PC's or some other OS?

Mac users faces security issue with apples own applications. that's why mac users use Best VPN for mac  to improve their mac security.  I recommend expressvpn because it works great all over the world, it has great number of servers all over the world.Security is reason to use vpn for mac.

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