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Being able to connect to the Internet while sipping on a Cinnamon Latte in your local coffee shop, or updating Facebook with details of your latest adventure in some exotic location are just two of the luxuries of the mobile Internet age. However, as ideal as these scenarios sound, using unencrypted wireless connections at public [...]

CISPA, stands for the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011  (H.R. 3523). More precisely, this new bill is a kind of a successor of the latest SOPA legislative proposal which was shot down at the beginning of the year. According to EFF’s analysis, this bill could be used to give copyright enforcers the ability to spy on [...]

Following Google’s recent change in privacy policies, we would like to focus on the actual consequences on the users. According to Google, this changes are necessary to simplify its policy and also to improve the experience on services such as Gmail, Picasa, Google Plus and Youtube. However, the data picking also enables the company to [...]

With the increasing use of the smartphones, the security issues are rising too. Many people think they could communicate without taking any caution. However security breaches are numerous on mobile devices. Even the Blackberry show some vulnerability. It is possible to decrypt some data from this kind of mobile. For example, in an article from [...]

In a last post, we already mentioned how to use a VPN on any mobile device, however it could be useful to devote a special post on a full tutorial about the use of a VPN on iPhone 4/4S. As for VPN on iPad, you don’t need any technical skills for the setup. VPN use [...]

With the increase of the android market, your online security and privacy is threatening by some security breaches. As for mobile devices, iPad, or even iPhone, your communications from your Android can easily be decrypted and intercepted. According to blogotechnoblog.com As a total, there are 13 security vulnerabilities which have been tested on 8 phones [...]

Following SOPA’s recent protest, a new legal measure is now frightening the web world: the Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Last month, 22 of EU member states decided to sign the bill. As a result, a widespread protest began with hacked Web sites and legislators backing away from the treaty. What is ACTA? The ACTA is [...]

As the increasing importance of the smartphones market, it’s also obvious to look for a better way to secure your communications on various mobile devices. The temptation to connect you mobile everywhere (cafes, airports, …) should always be temporized by the necessity to control what information could be shared and also intercepted. Computer users are [...]

January 28, 2012, will be Data Privacy Day, a special event for raising awareness about privacy education and best practices. For this special occasion, Private Wifi is offering a one-day coupon for 50% off of an annual subscription to its VPN software. More details  

The famous streaming video website from the US, provides media content from over 260 content companies, such as Fox or ABC. Channels as BBC or Channel 4 also broadcast most of this content, but you might don’t want to wait that much. Hulu‘s services aren’t yet available for UK-residents. Every britain IP-address which tries to [...]