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The New York Times announced [https://open.nytimes.com/https-open-nytimes-com-the-new-york-times-as-a-tor-onion-service-e0d0b67b7482] 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 the world. Some readers choose to use Tor to access our
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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, unsecured networks : WPA2, the standard encryption protocol for all secured networked has been breached. The
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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 of KickassTorrents Artem Vaulin, several competing sites TorrentHound and Torrentzeu met the same fate. According to the
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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 by Golden Frog aims to reduce lag, lower ping and increase speed by only redirecting
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Code42 announced today the end of CrashPlan for Home. An email was sent to current customers, explaining the sunsetting plan [https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/consumer/nextsteps/]: > We have shifted our business strategy to focus on the enterprise and small business segments. This means that over the next 14
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TunnelBear [http://click.tunnelbear.com/SH2W] 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 [https://cure53.de/summary-report_tunnelbear.pdf]. An audit had already been made in
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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 red country. ExpressVPN, Goldenfrog's VyperVPN were among the casualties. Goldenfrog's CEO
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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