Russia to ban VPNs
Published in News
05 October 2023

Russia to ban VPNs


Expects internet to surrender in three days

Tsar Vladimir Putin has unleashed his communications watchdogs on VPNs in a desperate bid to make sure no one sources their news from anyone other than him.

Mozilla says sorry for adverts
Published in News


Angry users fling fruit

Big Cheeses at the Mozzarella Foundation have said sorry after installing a full-page advert promoting Mozilla VPN on Firefox.

VPN use and searches surge in Utah
Published in Network


Who did not see that coming?

Utah citizens are rushing to open VPN accounts as a means to circumvent Utah's new law requiring porn sites to verify users' ages.

Google's VPN advertising bans make some apps rubbish
Published in Network


Don't you mess with revenue 

Google will ban Android VPN apps in its Play store from iblocking advertising which could cause some major headaches for privacy applications.

Ubiquiti sues Krebs on Security
Published in News


Claims it covered up cyber-attack were untrue

Brian Krebs, at the Krebs on Security blog has been sued by Ubiquiti which claims that a report that the company played down a security breach was untrue.

Apple’s VPN software exposes users
Published in Mobiles

 

Software genii strike again

The fruity cargo cult Apple’s software genii have had yet another success developing VPN software which reveals all its users secrets and stops traffic from being encrypted.

Linux VPN connections can be hacked
Published in News


Too easy to p p pick up a penguin

Insecurity experts at Breakpointing Bad have found aa new vulnerability allowing potential attackers to hijack VPN connections on affected *NIX devices and inject arbitrary data payloads into IPv4 and IPv6 TCP streams.

Firefox gets a VPN again
Published in News
11 September 2019

Firefox gets a VPN again


Rather, old fruit

Mozilla is resurrecting its recently Test Pilot programme with a renewed focus on privacy-focused tools and products and among the collection is a VPN.

Windows 10 might bork your VPN
Published in News


Microsoft appears to be botching things lately

Windows 10 users have been exposed to a worrying new vulnerability, which will bork their VPN.

Most US techies use a VPN
Published in News
06 September 2017

Most US techies use a VPN


Pirate without fear

An international cybersecurity awareness survey found that 65 percent of US tech sector workers now use a virtual private network (VPN) on either work or personal devices.