Vulnerability Georgia Officials Quietly Patched Security Holes They Said Didn’t Exist A ProPublica analysis found that the state was busily fixing problems in its voter registration hours after the office of Secretary of State Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate for governor, had insisted the
News Dropbox drops support for most Linux filesystems in November Dropbox users on GNU/Linux distributions were first surprised when an eerie notification popped up on their screen. A thread was opened on Dropbox forums, reporting: These days, I found my Dropbox Linux
News DtDNS will shut down on August 1, 2018 DtDNS was originally founded to provide services to the users left stranded by the original dyndns service's disappearance, ml.org. But the company announced its coming shut down on August 1, 2018, after
News 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
News 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
News 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
News Russia blocks large parts of the web in bid to silence Telegram Telegram is deploying proxies across various cloud providers to allow users of the secure messenger app to continue chatting privately, bypassing the block on Telegram's own network. Russia asked Google and Apple to
Vulnerability Possible zero-day exploit in VestaCP, the open-source hosting panel [Patch released] Numerous users reported on VestaCP forums that their servers had been compromised. If you have Vesta Control Panel installed on your server, the Vesta CP teams recommends shutting down the VestaCP process with
News 8tracks music service breached, millions of passwords stolen 8tracks internet radio and playlist service has been hit by an attack where over 18 million accounts' email and passwords have been stolen. Only users who signed up with their email as a
News What's new in SpiderOak 7.0? New year, new secure backup software version. US-based SpiderOak has released a new iteration of their encrypted backup and sync software for both desktop and mobile devices. Are the changes enough to make
News Malwarebytes defective update eats up all your RAM and CPU - how to fix it Malwarebytes Anti-Malware's users, or MBAM for short, have been victim of a defective update. Numerous users noticed the RAM usage of the antimalware process (mbamservice.exe) shooting up and its CPU usage spiking
News DuckDuckGo goes beyond search with privacy app and extension DuckDuckGo, the privacy-centric search engine, launched today a new foray into the privacy arena, aiming to protect you beyond your search queries. The new version of the DDG mobile app is much more
News Ok Google, give me my Docs back Earlier today reports from panicked Google Docs users poured out on Twitter: people were getting locked out of documents they were writing. It started with National Geographic's wildlife-crime writer Rachael Bale who asked
News The New York Times launches .onion site The New York Times announced the launch of a TOR-only version of their website. The New York Times reports on stories all over the world, and our reporting is read by people around
News KRACK in Wi-Fi : severe flaw discovered in WPA2 protocol A security problem with Wi-Fi networks 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
