Another day, another data breach. Between 2012 and 2016, Yahoo experienced a massive data breach that impacted countless users. The narrative and scope of the story changed several times, but the matter has fully come to conclusion. Yahoo must pay a settlement to anyone who had their information stolen during...
Things in China only seem to become more dysphoric with the passage of time. China has long been established as a “big brother” state, where its citizens are highly monitored by the government and routinely stripped of freedoms. It was bad enough when China closed off its internet from the...
Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, also known as Roskomnadzor, has slowly been leeching away free access to information from the Russian public. Roskomnadzor’s latest move is DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) filtration technology, an eerie “big brother” tactic designed to heavily restrict...
Blade Runner, Minority Report, and even Black Mirror warned us of the looming possibility, and now that possibility is a reality. About 75 countries are currently using some kind of artificially intelligent surveillance technology to track their citizens. This alarming statistic almost sounds like a conspiracy theory on the surface...
We all want to be safe, and we’re all on a budget. But where can we cut corners? Free VPNs seem like a promising compromise. Sure, it’s evident from the start that they won’t be as fast and flashy as a paid VPN. Many of them at...
This isn’t the first time there’s been a reason to panic about ransomware. Years ago, when the threats first emerged, every business or government entity that stored sensitive information went into full panic mode. Since then, security experts have implemented improved safeguards against this ransomware. A new type...
