News KRACK in Wi-Fi : severe flaw discovered in WPA2 protocol A security problem with Wi-Fi network has been discovered. Wifi is everywhere : chances are you use it at home and at work. And this time, it's not even about the dangers of open,
News Google Drive is the new Pirate Bay As torrent websites keep falling one after the other, people downloading movies and TV shows have to get more creative to access the content they crave. After the arrest of the alleged owner
News Outfox gaming VPN now supports Rainbow Six Siege, Rocket League and Battlefield 1 Outfox is one of the few VPN services aimed towards gamers. You could ask yourself : why a VPN for gaming? Doesn't it add latency instead of reducing it? Unlike traditional VPN services, Outfox
Cloud CrashPlan discontinues consumer backup product Code42 announced today the end of CrashPlan for Home. An email was sent to current customers, explaining the sunsetting plan: We have shifted our business strategy to focus on the enterprise and small
News TunnelBear publishes industry-first 3rd-party security audit TunnelBear has completed the first third-party public security audit in the consumer VPN industry. The audit was conducted by the respected German firm Cure53, and the report is available on its website. An
News Apple bans VPN apps from Chinese App Store Apple gave in to Beijin's requests. In a surprising move, Apple removed popular VPN apps from the Chinese version of the App Store, making them unavailable for non-jailbroken iPhone, iPad users in the
News Big Browser is watching - How to get your privacy back After Firefox's recent improvements - 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
News New WannaCry-like ransomware cyberattack spreads worldwide A new ransomware cyberattack similar to last month's WannaCry is now spreading in Europe, Russia and the USA. At least 80 major private companies have been infected, including the big pharmaceutical group Merck,
News Personal Details and Political Bias of 198 Million US Citizens Leaked 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
News British Parliament hit by a sustained cyberattack Both chambers of the British Parliament were hit by a 'sustained' cyberattack, following attempts to find weak email accounts passwords which were on sale online. Statement regarding cyber incident. pic.twitter.com/fAbDkAfdbj&
News Free Swiss ProtonVPN now available for everyone 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's website. Although limited in speed and
Cloud Amazon kills Unlimited Storage plan Another cloud service is no longer unlimited. Amazon ended its Unlimited Everything plan. As Amazon announced today in this FAQ article, new customers have to chose between a 100GB plan for $11.99
Vulnerability Compromised in Translation - How Hackers Can Take Control of Your PCs with Subtitles Researchers from the Israel-based Check Point Software Technologies discovered a new vector of attack that puts at risk hundreds of millions users of the most popular media players, including VLC, Kodi (formerly XBMC)
Virus WannaCry Ransomware Impacts Over 100 Countries + Decryption Tool (UPDATE : New Decryption Tool 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.
Virus Avira Announces Avira Prime, a VPN and Antivirus Subscription Avira, the German antivirus company, now offers all its services in one unified subscription: Avira Prime For a monthly fee - 9.95€ for 5 devices or 12.99€ for 25 devices -
Security 500 Million Yahoo Accounts Hacked Yahoo disclosed on Thursday 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
News LogMeIn buys LastPass - Here are the 3 best alternatives LogMeIn, the remote access company that terminated all its free user accounts with a 7-days grace period, just acquired Lastpass for $125 million in cash. LastPass was a password manager with both free
News Verizon's Zombie Cookie Gets New Life Verizon is giving a new mission to its controversial hidden identifier that tracks users of mobile devices. Verizon said in a little-noticed announcement that it will soon begin sharing the profiles with AOL's
News First Library to Support Anonymous Internet Browsing Effort Stops After DHS Email A library in a small New Hampshire town started to help Internet users around the world surf anonymously using Tor. Until the Department of Homeland Security raised a red flag. Since Edward Snowden
News Opera Max saves data when streaming Youtube and Netflix Opera 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
News Here’s Why the Close Collaboration Between the NSA and AT&T Matters by Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson ProPublica, Aug. 17, 2015, 10:54 a.m. Newly disclosed documents unveiling the close relationship between the National Security Agency and AT&T could breathe new
News Windows 10 free upgrade has a price : your privacy So, you've just updated your PC to the brand new smoother, faster, more user-friendly Windows 10? Windows 10 has great features, like the virtual assistant, Cortana, virtual desktops, a more mouse and keyboard-friendly
News HORNET: high-speed anonymity network If you like TOR, but you think it's too sluggish to be a reliable option to counter surveillance, this innovation may speed things up. Five researchers just published a paper presenting a new
News How to know if your ISP is throttling your internet speeds Even though the FCC presented new Net Neutrality rules in February, your Internet Service Provider may still be secretly degrading your connection performance and speed. This new tool published by the nonprofit Fight
VPN New Encryption Bug Allows Decryption of 66% VPN Servers There's a new vulnerability in town, and it's a critical threat to anyone who uses a VPN, email, or even a browser. What is Logjam? Dubbed Logjam, this encryption bug allows man-in-the-middle attacks
