After months of disruption to Google services that began during the Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests, Gmail is now completely blocked off in China going on four days. Reports are now coming in that access to Gmail is trickling back to mainland China, however this won’t curb the...
After previous attacks reported by greatfire.org on Github, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, it appears authorities in China are now conducting a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack on Apple’s iCloud service. Over the past hours China’s great firewall has begun discreetly redirecting visitors to a fake page that was created...
Chinese authorities are tightening internet censorship throughout the country as pro-democracy protests take place in Hong Kong. For the very first time it has now blocked the popular photo sharing platform Instagram in an effort to prevent this viral pro-democracy movement from spreading elsewhere within the country. Other websites are...
It appears the virtual sky above China has just lost another cloud: Dropbox. Today, Chinese users are waking to the reality that one of the most popular cloud storage services in the world is now being blocked (again) by China’s firewall. According to censorship watchdog GreatFire.org this new...
As the twenty-fifth anniversary of the crackdown on democracy protests around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square fast approaches, China’s great firewall has tightened its grip on Google. Censorship watchdog GreatFire.org is reporting that the Chinese government has begun targeting Google and Gmail making them completely inaccessible for users in...
This VPN how-to describes how to connect to a TorGuard “Stealth” SSTP VPN server by using the built in Network Manager in Ubuntu. MS-SSTP (Microsoft Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol) is a VPN protocol which is developed by Microsoft Corporation. This protocol implements PPP over HTTPS (SSL) and capsules all user...