In a recent patch to the Google App Engine, the company has removed domain-fronting. The technique was frequently used by programs and users alike to bypass blocks put in place by governments to prevent traffic to some sites. Domain-fronting is accomplished by directing all traffic through Google.com domains. This way, …
Read More »Opera is Retiring its Free VPN for Android & iOS
The Toronto-based company has recently announced that they will be closing Opera VPN on Android and iOS devices on the 30th of April. The announcement clearly makes the VPN’s Viking mascot, Olaf, sad. Read the announcement at their site: https://www.operavpn.com The mobile application for Opera VPN was first made available …
Read More »Severe Flaws in Industrial Routers Patched by Moxa
Talos intelligence has revealed 17 vulnerable points in a Moxa industrial router. The company has now rolled out a patch addressing the issue. The affected router is the industrial EDR-810. It is marketed as a multiport secure router and offers services such as a firewall, virtual private network support (VPN), …
Read More »Chinese Great Firewall Now Also Blocks 4 Top News Apps
Four of the most popular Chinese news applications have been suspended. The regulators’ major drive for this was that the news apps were distributing ‘fake’ and ‘vulgar’ content to their users. In line with China’s constant efforts for content regulation, the country’s government has strengthened the Great Chinese Firewall by …
Read More »Facebook Faces the Courts
Most people don’t realize that Facebook is selling your information to advertisers without your consent, by monetizing your “shares” and “likes”, according to the Belgian Privacy Commission (BPC). Belgian Courts ruled against Facebook declaring its activities like canvas fingerprinting unlawful and fining them more than the US $ 25 Million PLUS …
Read More »Malicious Terdot Attacks Social Media, Email and Financial Services to Get Your Details
The Trojan predominately attacks users of Canadian financial websites and it is likely that the perpetrators behind Terdot have links to Russia. Many have said that calling Terdot malware a banking Trojan is the same as calling your computer a calculator. While it, in fact, is a banking Trojan, Terdot …
Read More »Egyptian Authorities Intensify Internet Crackdown following Signal Blockade
The Egyptian government has stepped up its crackdown against what it describes as the careless use of the internet in the country. Only a few weeks ago, the government managed to block Signal, a popular private messaging service. The move by the government to block the messaging service that is …
Read More »Signal Seeks to Silence Government Censorship in Egypt
Signal, the popular messaging service that allows users to communicate using end-to-end encryption methods is set to develop new features to defeat government censorship. Announcing the new plans, the company behind the app, Open Whispers said that it had noted that some states had developed new methods of blocking Signal. …
Read More »Yahoo Breached Again: 1 Billion Accounts Hacked
In an interesting twist of events, Yahoo has announced that it has discovered that more than 1 billion of the accounts of its clients were hacked back in 2013. This new revelation comes hot on the heels of another announcement by the company that 500 million user accounts were compromised …
Read More »UAE citizens need clarification on VPN laws and regulations
Just recently, the UAE cyber security act of 2012 was amended. The regulations defined by the law are quite clear on most aspects but is very vague on the VPN usage in the country. Most people always want to be on the correct side of the law, but this can …
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