Smartphones and BADASS Security Exploit
Canadian and British spy agencies were recently revealed to essentially be operating under the guidance of bad James Bond fanfiction when it was discovered that they were using a program called BADASS to collect data from smartphones…
Continue Reading...Securing VPN DNS Leaks
Firefox and Chrome browsers, long held as the gold standards for getting around the web, have recently taken a hit due to an exploit that was allowing IPs to leak, even when someone was aiming to browse securely by using a proxy of VPN service…
Continue Reading...Privacy: Past, Present and Future
Unfortunately, the wording on that included the word “WAS”. Online privacy seems to be growing more and more scares as time goes on, and some researchers are wondering if that trend will continue into the future…
Continue Reading...Advantages of VPN Service vs Proxy Server
Every aspect of increasing anonymity while using the Internet has its own pros and cons. As we wrote recently, programs and utilities such as adblockers and “private” browsing modes work okay, if you’re more worried about what you’re seeing in your browser (or what a roommate is seeing in your browser) than you are about securing your connection…
Continue Reading...VPN Service & Targeted Advertising
Have you ever wondered exactly why advertisements with dogs or baby pictures showed up in your Facebook page? Have you been meandering right along online before and stopped to think – Just where are those coming from? The answer is fairly simple – Facebook sold your privacy. After all, if Facebook is free, how exactly […]
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