News
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.
News
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
Cloud
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.
Vulnerability
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:
Virus
(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, but its
Virus
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 Avira
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.
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
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&
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?
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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