Breaking news for the VPN world and for CyberGhost subscribers in particular: the Romanian-based company was recently acquired by Crossrider Limited, a London-based online distribution and digital product company originating from Israel. While the deal is fruitful for both parties, some users still fear that now the Crossrider group will not only be in charge of their VPN experience, but could also get its hands on their user logs. However, as stated by CyberGhost’s CEO Robert Knapp, clients can rest assured that everything will remain the same, and both companies will emerge from the deal stronger than ever. Read More…
VPN Services News
PureVPN Releases Extension for Google Chrome
PureVPN, one of our top ranked VPN providers, just released a handy new extension for Google Chrome. Although it’s nothing really new as there are other companies who have already taken this step before, new features meant to increase users’ privacy are always worthy of applause. However, because nowadays no tool has solely one funtion, PureVPN equiped the new Chrome extension with some extra features that will surely delight its subscribers. Despite the extension being absolutely free and able to be downloaded by anyone with Chrome installed, only those who are PureVPN members can actually benefit from it, as the first step after installing is inserting your credentials. Read More…
NAVIA, a New Portable VPN by ZenMate
The VPN world is packed with alternatives, devices and providers, all of which promise you the Canaan of web surfing. However, these solutions are very different from each other and can easily confuse users, so they might have no idea what they should invest their money in. To make things much clearer, ZenMate developed NAVIA, a new portable VPN device that promises to be a breath of fresh air in the overflowing market. The German VPN company is carrying out a fund-raising campaign until the end of February via Indiegogo, and already has to deal with an incredible amount of pre-orders. Depending on the number of the pre-ordered devices, assembling will start in March, while the first deliveries are expected to be in August 2017. Read More…
Thousands of D-Link Routers Expose Users
Flash news: yet another case of people’s data getting exposed online. This time the victims are users of D-Link’s routers, the Taiwanese multinational company that manufactures network equipment. The company is now being sued for security flaws in their home-network devices, more specifically its routers and web cameras. The Federal Trade Commission is already involved and is in charge of the case alleging that the company has misled consumers for the lack of proper security standards. The products were failing in protecting consumers’ data, leaving them completely vulnerable to hackers, and the company was also accused of failing to comply with the practices determined by the industry to secure consumer content and avoid cases like these. Read More…
LiquidSky to Set the Future of Cloud Gaming
Cloud gaming isn’t particularly a new phenomenon, with the most famous ones being GeForce Now and PlayStation Now. At CES 2017, LiquidSky was unveiled with the promise of revolutionizing and setting the future for game streaming services. The service is still in a beta phase but you can already join the 1.1 million beta sign-ups. The service is expected to go live in February. Read More…
Yet Another Google Privacy Issue to Put You on a Nerve
Google and privacy are two words that when put together almost never turn out to be good news. To confirm this rule, the American company is under fire once again for privacy violation issues with possible harmful consequences for users. This time, Google is being accused by two advocacy groups of breaking the law by changing its privacy policy without any prior notice and consent from users. Consumer Watchdog and Privacy Rights Clearinghouse exposed a case that has everything to become yet another interesting confrontation featuring one of the world’s most valuable companies. It might result in another couple of months of hard work for its more than 400 lawyers since the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is also involved in the situation, obviously opposing Google. Read More…
Kids Companies are Keeping an Eye on Them… Literally
We already know that nowadays, online privacy is almost reduced to the minimum, and we also have knowledge of some companies and major agencies that like to follow our virtual trail. What many people don’t realize enough is that all this internet snooping is affecting our children more than anyone else, as technology becomes easier to use and they don’t realize which dangers are lurking. Recently, four major toy corporations were fined over cases of tracking the online movements of children accessing their website, something that, according to Eric Schneiderman, New York Attorney General, is a plain violation of the law. Read More…
Turkey Says Enough to Users Circumventing Blocks
Although we live in 2016, internet censorship in the world is as real as people still using “1234567890” as a password. Although to be honest we don’t really know which of these is worse, for now we’ll leave password concerns in their corner, as now we’ll be dealing with countries restricting internet access to its citizens. Turkey for instance, one of the most appreciated and visited countries in the world by tourists, is also quite at the back seat regarding online freedom concerns. Turkish people live in an oppressive regime that often blocks pages such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or WhatsApp, although restrictions are not as vast as in China with its Great Firewall for instance. Nevertheless, it is something present in everyday life and because of that, users already learned one of the best ways to avoid such restrictions. The problem is that the government also learned the lesson and VPNs are now the new targets. Read More…
Snowden Says Goodbye Before He Can Say Allo
Google has recently entered the fierce battle of the messaging apps to counter the rise of Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Apple’s iMessage with the creation of its own messaging app. Called Allo, the service has its own virtual assistant that works as your online guider – per say – depending on what you write and presenting you results and ads of various interests. Making its debut in an already app-flooded world, it received some warm interest from the community, something that didn’t dissuade the American giant corporation to try and bring some grist to the mill. However, that task now seems more complicated as what was presented as a step forward regarding privacy, led the infamous online surveillance lord Edward Snowden simply saying “don’t use it”. Here’s why. Read More…
Freedom on the Net Report 2016: Internet Freedom Further on Decline
Freedom on the Net Report is a project by Freedom House that works as a “collaborative effort between a small team of Freedom House staff and an extensive network of local researchers and advisors in 65 countries”. Since 2009, FOTNR has been performing country evaluations once a year and. As its name indicates, it publishes a report based on its “cutting-edge analysis, fact-based advocacy, and on-the-ground capacity building”, regarding different countries’ positions on internet access and censorship. The report labels the state of internet freedom in different countries as “free”, “partly free” and “not free”. Rankings, numerical scores and comparisons with previous years are part of the report, giving its vast audience a clear insight into a specific country’s online development or regressions over time. Their reports are the most accurate and complete in the world. Therefore they’re the most widely used resource by different entities such as worldwide activists, international development agencies, journalists, tech companies and many more. Read More…
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