On July 12, 2017, websites, Internet users, and online communities will come together to sound the alarm about the FCC’s attack on net neutrality. Learn how you can join the protest and spread the word at https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12/. Right now, new FCC Chairman and former Verizon
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After Firefox's recent improvements [https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/14/15802102/firefox-54-update-faster-less-memory] - namely the introduction of multi-threading allowing the use of multiple processes, even though their number is currently limited to 4 - it is no surprise to see the Mozilla Foundation is trying to market
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A new ransomware cyberattack similar to last month's WannaCry [https://vpnrevie.ws/2017/05/19/wannacry-ransomware-impacts-over-100-countries/] is now spreading in Europe, Russia and the USA. At least 80 major private companies have been infected, including the big pharmaceutical group Merck, the shipping company from Denmark AP Moller-Maersk which
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The data was left exposed to the view of everyone by Deep Root Analytics, a contractor used by the Republican Party. This is not a case of hacking, but rather misconfiguration. All those records were kept in an unprotected Amazon S3 bucket. What is the data? The data exposed included
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Both chambers of the British Parliament were hit by a 'sustained' cyberattack, following attempts to find weak email accounts passwords [https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/russian-hackers-trade-british-ministers-email-addresses-and-passwords-hqtr7pv9z] which were on sale online. > Statement regarding cyber incident. pic.twitter.com/fAbDkAfdbj [https://t.co/fAbDkAfdbj] — Commons Press Office
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ProtonVPN, the VPN service from the Swiss encrypted email provider, is now available for everyone. After a year of closed beta, registrations are now open on ProtonVPN [https://protonvpn.com]'s website. Although limited in speed and available locations, the free tier is not just a free trial. It
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Another cloud service is no longer unlimited. Amazon ended its Unlimited Everything plan. As Amazon announced today in this FAQ article [https://www.amazon.com/b?node=16591160011], new customers have to chose between a 100GB plan for $11.99 per year, or the 1 TB plan for $59.99.
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Researchers from the Israel-based Check Point Software Technologies [https://www.checkpoint.com] discovered a new vector of attack that puts at risk hundreds of millions users of the most popular media players, including VLC [http://www.videolan.org], Kodi [https://kodi.tv] (formerly XBMC), Popcorn Time, and Stremio [https://www.
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(UPDATE : New Decryption Tool [https://github.com/gentilkiwi/wanakiwi/releases] should work on any Windows from XP to 7, provided you don't restart your PC.) WannaCry - also called Wana Cryptor 2.0 - has impacted over 100 countries. This ransomware is not the first of its kind,
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Avira, the German antivirus company, now offers all its services in one unified subscription: Avira Prime [https://www.avira.com/en/avira-prime] For a monthly fee - 9.95€ for 5 devices or 12.99€ for 25 devices - you can access all the premium apps from Avira. This includes
Black Friday is the time when you can get the best deals both in brick-and-mortar stores and online. VPN services are no exception, as VPN providers tend to save their biggest discount for this annual event. Let's see what's new for Black Friday 2016. Psst... this
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Yahoo disclosed on Thursday [https://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/150781911849/an-important-message-about-yahoo-user-security] what may be the biggest breach of all time : 500 million users accounts were breached in 2014 by a 'state-sponsored actor'. It may be the US government itself (through the NSA) or Russia, or China. If you