Security
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
VPN
The Norwegian browser company launched on Tuesday a free VPN app for Android, available on Google Play [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opera.vpn]. Unlike with most free VPN apps, traffic is unlimited. The app allows you to connect to five locations: The USA, The Netherlands,
While everyone else is busy chasing Pokemon in the streets [http://lifehacker.com/what-is-pokemon-go-and-why-is-everyone-talking-about-it-1783420761] , NBC Universal is hunting BitTorent pirates, now in real-time. A patent [http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=
Security
All computers die at some point. If yours died today, would you be able to recover all your documents, videos and photos? Sure, there's now cloud storage (Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and the likes), and you can still backup to external drives. But do you backup often enough?
News
LogMeIn [https://secure.logmein.com/], the remote access company that terminated all its free user accounts with a 7-days grace period, just acquired Lastpass [https://lastpass.com/] for $125 million in cash. LastPass was a password manager with both free account and a premium plan at $12 per year which
VPN Services
VPN services are an excellent way to protect your privacy and enhance your security, but monthly subscriptions can be expensive. If you want to save while still having premium protection, this list is for you! 1. Private Internet Access 2-Yr Subscription for $59.95 [http://stacksocial.com/sales/private-internet-access-vpn?aid=
VPN Reviews
Every year, antivirus makers add new features to their Internet Security packages. But the Finnish security company F-Secure [https://f-secure.com] took a different path. Instead of bloating up their products with tons of features you might never even try, they chose simplicity. F-Secure Internet Security [https://www.f-secure.com/
Browser
Browser extensions like Adblock Plus [https://adblockplus.org/], Ghostery [https://www.ghostery.com/en/our-solutions/ghostery-add-on/] and Disconnect [https://disconnect.me/disconnect] can help you block online ads and some forms of online tracking. They all share a flaw: these add-ons rely on predefined lists [https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/
Browser
> A new kind of tracking tool, canvas fingerprinting, is being used to follow visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn. Update: After this article was published, YouPorn contacted us to say it had removed AddThis technology from its website, saying that the website was "
News
Opera Max [http://www.opera.com/mobile/max] is a data-saving app for Android which compresses photos and videos in almost all your apps, shortening loading times, and making your data plan last up to 50% longer. But until now, Opera Max didn't compress [http://www.opera.com/
News
by Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson ProPublica, Aug. 17, 2015, 10:54 a.m. Newly disclosed documents [https://www.propublica.org/article/nsa-spying-relies-on-atts-extreme-willingness-to-help] unveiling the close relationship between the National Security Agency and AT&T could breathe new life into a long-running legal dispute about the NSA's
Privacy
"Man In The Middle" is an attack type where the hacker can eavesdrop on the communication between you and a website or app. For example, a Man In The Middle attack between you and your bank's website would allow the attacker to get your login credentials.