hubiC review - the fallen cloud

When OVH announced its own cloud storage product in September 2011, it was positioned as the cheapest cloud ever: more affordable than Dropbox yet out of the US territory as it was hosted in France, a country with one of the most restrictive privacy laws. The promise hubiC was billed

Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your Rates

To an outsider, the fancy booths at last month’s health insurance industry gathering in San Diego aren’t very compelling. A handful of companies pitching “lifestyle” data and salespeople touting jargony phrases like “social determinants of health.” But dig deeper and the implications of what they’re selling might

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VPNhub review: PornHub's VPN falls short

PornHub's expansion into the VPN market should come as no surprise. The adult entertainment company chose to focus on the mobile segment, by announcing a free and unlimited VPN app for Android and iOS. With the help of cheesy ads [https://youtu.be/IGzWZ6T9fqo] and this free plan,

HarborVPS LXC hosting review

When you want a step up from shared hosting or wish for more freedom to install your own software (such as a VPN), a VPS can be a solution. But how do you know if your provider respects your privacy? Enter HarborVPS: the Canadian-owned Swiss VPS company. Why Switzerland? Switzerland

CyberGhost VPN Lifetime Offer

For a limited time, you can get a lifetime CyberGhost Premium account for USD 84.99 [https://stacksocial.com/sales/cyberghost-vpn-lifetime-subscription?aid=a-rm9ng2tx] . Moreover, get an additional 15% off with the couponCYBERGHOST15 CyberGhost was at first a Romanian VPN but it was acquired by the company Crossrider in 2017, which

VPNFilter malware's C&C server shut down by the FBI

The U.S. government announced it had darkened a key domain related to VpnFilter, a sprawling malware botnet that in recent days had hacked over 500,000 routers and other devices in 54 countries. Image credit: Cisco TalosInitially detected by the Cisco Talos Intelligence Group [https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/

Plex adds Podcasts

Plex announced the implementation of an often-asked feature: podcasts. If you don't know what Plex is, you're missing out. Plex is the combination of a Plex Media Server and players that are compatible with the devices you already have. Be it your Android or iOS phone/

The Selfish Ledger - Google's leaked video transcript

Intro This man is Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck. In 1809, 50 years before Darwin published The Origin of the Species, he wrote what is widely recognized as the first comprehensive theory of evolution. His book, the Philosophie Zoologique introduced the notion of an internal code

EasyMesh: a standard to allow different mesh routers to communicate with each other

The Wi-Fi Alliance consortium has launched a new protocol that allows manufacturers to develop devices that are compatible with those of other companies: EasyMesh What Wi-Fi Mesh means, is a wireless network formed by routers that transmit the signal to each other. It is an easy to use and safe

PSA: PGP/GPG and S/MIME vulnerabilities found

Earlier today, a group of European researchers from Münster University, Ruhr-University, and KU Leuven University released a warning on Twitter: > We'll publish critical vulnerabilities in PGP/GPG and S/MIME email encryption on 2018-05-15 07:00 UTC. They might reveal the plaintext of encrypted emails, including encrypted

How to Wrestle Your Data From Data Brokers, Silicon Valley — and Cambridge Analytica

Cambridge Analytica thinks that I’m a “Very Unlikely Republican.” Another political data firm, ALC Digital, has concluded I’m a “Socially Conservative,” Republican, “Boomer Voter.” In fact, I’m a 27-year-old millennial with no set party allegiance. For all the fanfare, the burgeoning field of mining our personal data