According to Reporters Without Borders (RSF) China jails the largest number of journalists in the world. RSF warns against complacency towards China’s continued abuse of press freedom, suggesting that other authoritarian countries across Asia are looking at Beijing as a model for managing their own press. In 2018 China has …
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 »Digital Anti-Censorship Billboards Removed by Google Street View
A series of billboards questioning the status quo and chastising world leaders has appeared on Google Street View, which then the internet giant promptly removed. The billboards were made in a campaign to combat censorship and promote freedom of speech and expression. The Swedish subdivision of “Reporters Without Borders” worked …
Read More »Guccifer 2.0 Identified due to VPN Error
Russian collusion with the Trump campaign The United States Presidential election in 2016 was a crazy time. Unthinkably, the DNC was hacked by a lone “hacktvist” looking to expose the Illuminati. Guccifer 2.0 claimed to be a lone actor based in Romania. He leaked emails to WikiLeaks that were siphoned …
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 »VPN provider AnchorFree Subject to Excessive Government Scrutiny
One of the largest providers of VPNs (short for Virtual Private Networks) in the U.S., AnchorFree, recently published the transparency report for the current year, 2017. This report details all the legal pathways that governmental authorities used for requesting client data in each country. What is remarkable about this particular …
Read More »Net Neutrality Repeal announced by the FCC – The Aftermath and Impact on VPNs and Torrent Providers
VPN provider FindVPN.com has seen a significant surge in searches for safe Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) for torrenting since last week. This is the effect of multiple causes. The first one is Austria’s recent ruling that ISPs (short for Internet Service Providers) are forced to block The Pirate Bay and …
Read More »NHS to Sign Up Computer Hackers to Fortify its Online Systems
Experts have warned that a cyber attack far worse the Wannacry will hit the UK within the next five years. NHS Digital, the computer company behind the NHS in the UK aims to protect the sensitive information of is patients by forking out £20 million for an IT contract. Through …
Read More »ISPs in the UK told to Stop Using ‘Up to’ Speeds in Advertising
The new guidelines set out will be in effect from late May next year and will attempt to force broadband providers to advertise their average speeds achievable. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the UK will no longer be able to falsely advertising their internet speeds through terminology uses such as …
Read More »OpenVPN Issues a Warning to Small Businesses
The costly expense of recovering from a data breach can be avoided by simply looking for safer alternatives while using the internet. OpenVPN, Inc. has issued a warning to all small businesses, for them to get their online security ready for Small Business Saturday. According to OpenVPN CEO, Francis Dinha …
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