Thank God this hasn’t happened here in the United States (yet). It is not for lack of trying by US law enforcement agencies, though. What am I talking about? Australia recently passed the controversial and totally STUPID anti-encryption law called Telecommunication & Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance & Access) Act of 2018 (TOLA).
TOLA is supposed to ...
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A VPN can provide a way to keep your location private by replacing the IP address of your ISP’s gateway router with an anonymous IP from the VPN provider’s pool. It will prevent your ISP, or Google and other websites from discovering your location, tracking your activity online, or saving your search history. The contents of your communications are changed from plaintext to ...
If you are looking to protect yourself and your computer communications by using a VPN, the hardest part often is knowing where to start. There are dozens of companies providing VPN services for a fee. How can you know which one is best for you?
There are a number of features to consider when shopping for a VPN service. Some of the features to ...
Continue Reading →If you travel frequently, for business or personal reasons, you may need a VPN. Or if you spend a lot of time connected to public wi-fi networks in hotels, libraries, coffee shops, restaurants, airports or elsewhere, you may need a VPN. Or if you need to connect to the business (or home) network back at the office over the Internet, you may need ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.The Register reports that a seller on the Dream Market – a Dark Web marketplace hidden by the encrypted layers of Tor – began offering 16 stolen databases with 620 million accounts.
Why do app developers ...
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How many of last year’s cybersecurity resolutions did you actually deploy in 2018? Not as many as you had hoped?
The new year gives us the opportunity to plan and deploy the computer and network security upgrades we need to implement to protect us from the exploits of cyber-criminals and other bad actors. What is on your list? Going to start using a ...
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Have you ever wondered why the state of cybersecurity is so screwed up? Why is it so easy for bad actors and cyber-criminals to hijack systems and steal information? Would you be surprised to learn the answer is because we designed it that way? Computers, networks, operating systems and software were designed to work together as easily as possible, and were inherently “trusted” by each other. In the beginning, most systems ...
Netherlands security company Black Box Security was raided by the Dutch Police and shuttered on suspicion of money laundering and operating a criminal enterprise. Black Box was the inventor of the Iron Phone and the Iron Chat app. Together, they were supposed to provide an unbreakable encrypted chat service. This service became a popular favorite among cyber and other criminals.
According to ...
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One of the most important systems that makes the Internet easy to use has absolutely no security in its current form. This means that your Internet service provider (and some others) can easily see every website that you visit. (Since you have “nothing to hide” this should not be a problem, right?)
DNS or the Domain Name System is the networking protocol that finds websites and resources on the ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.It’s a toll free “Apple Care” number, meaning that in theory it shouldn’t cost you a thing – so what’s the harm in calling just in case?
These guys give lawyers a bad name, if that isn’t an oxymoron. ...
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