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Posted April 26 2015 By admin

5 Tips to Avoid Giving Out Personal Information Online Let's face it, we all just want to be left alone on the internet. Nobody likes to give out personal information knowing that they're under the microscope 24/7 by unknown parties that God knows what they do with all that -useless- information. Anonymity and identity have become integral parts of the internet today as Big Brother's grip tightens. Through basic, simple information (such as: your name, date of birth, add...
Posted April 26 2015 By admin

if you're always on the move or rely mostly on your hand device (e.g: smartphone or tablet) to surf the web, you definitely need to secure your internet even if you're using a home network because an insecure hand device is a an easy target for hackers or phishers to spread malware or steal your personal data (like: credit card information or passwords). If you're looking for a way to browse the web safely without spending much on security services or creating a mess whil...
Posted April 24 2015 By admin

Internet shopping has become without doubt the most popular and fastest way to make purchases. With the rapid growth of online stores, people now find it a lot easier to shop for their stuff online instead of physically wandering through stores and markets in their towns. Moreover, you can purchase any product from anywhere in the world with just a few clicks on your mouse. With fast shipping and insane discounts, internet shopping has remarkably trumped over regular shoppi...
Posted April 21 2015 By admin

Is your location in China preventing you from being able to unblock Google Docs and other Google services? Ever since the start of the Communist Party’s 18th National Congress in China, it has taken full control over the country's web content. Even though China harbours the largest number of internet surfers than any other place on the planet, Internet censorship in China is considered to be "most extensive effort to selectively censor human expression ever implemented"...
Posted April 21 2015 By admin

Virtual private networks (VPNs) have been under attack in Australia by the government and have been deemed as illegal services by entertainment and video streaming companies, like: Sony and Netflix. This week, HBO Now has joined the war against VPNs when it threatened to prohibit non-US users from streaming content. A remarkably large number of Australian VPN users enjoy US based video-streaming libraries, mainly Netflix and HBO and rely on their VPN services to bypass ...
Posted April 20 2015 By admin

There are A LOT of misconceptions and a growing number of fallacies about safe web browsing trolling around the internet. You might think that by taking the necessary precautions you've read on the web, you're completely shielded from security breaches online, and that only dupes are targeted by the bad guys, like: hackers and phishers. However, according to Steve Santorelli, a former Scotland Yard cybercrime specialist and currently working for Team Cymru, security rese...
Posted April 19 2015 By admin

The war against VPNs continues in the land down under as a new copyright legislation law is being considered by the Australian Senate under which VPNs can be blocked, according Choice (Australian consumer advocacy group). In case you didn't already know, VPNs in Australia are a very big deal. Thousands of internet rely heavily on VPNs in Australia in order to gain access to blocked content overseas, particularly streaming websites, like: Netflix and Hulu. Howeve...
Posted April 19 2015 By admin

Are you planning on travelling to China, but at the same time concerned about keeping track of your Gmail on your PC, tablet or phone because of internet censorship? In this article we reveal how you can easily unblock Gmail in China using China VPN, step-by-step. The situation in China in a nutshell... With the dawn of 2015, the Red Dragon has leveraged its censorship on the World Wide Web in a cyber battle to keep the Chinese away from certain web content that has be...
Posted April 16 2015 By admin

Saudi Arabia is considered to be among the countries that exercise tight control on the internet using very strong filtering systems. All international internet traffic are directed through a proxy farm based in King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology. The DNS structure in Saudi Arabic has been under the control of the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) since October 2006. Websites filtered by Saudi Arabia Internet censorship in Saud...
Posted April 16 2015 By admin

On April 13th, Google announced a series of updates to its Cloud Networking Platform to continue providing its customers with better performance, more security and reliability. These updates include: Cloud DNS, Cloud VPN and eleven additional Carrier Interconnect Providers. Google's protruding updates are directed at reaching two main goals. The first is to leverage its global network and use serve users closer they are located with Google’s global network footprint....