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| Dec 16, 2025 | Hidden iPhone Spy Detector: The Secret Feature Every Apple User Has Been Ignoring | By Renz Soliman
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| Feb 11, 2025 | Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet service awaits approval to operate in Pakistan | New: You can now listen to articles.
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ISLAMABAD: Food delivery worker Muhammad Asghar has been hit hard by Pakistan’s repeated internet disruptions.
The 50-year-old relies on his phone to receive delive... |
| Jan 13, 2025 | The Cost of Silence: Internet Shutdowns and Censorship in the Modern Age | In a world driven by connectivity, the internet is the lifeblood of communication, commerce, and community. Yet, governments across the globe wield the power to sever this lifeline. Recent reports reveal a staggering loss of $1.56 billion i... |
| Jan 12, 2025 | Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa Lost $1.56bn to Internet Shutdown in 2024 - Report | Sub-Saharan African countries lost $1.56 billion to government-induced shutdowns in 2024, according to a new report by Top10vpn, an international VPN review website.
This is 19 per cent of the total $7.69 billion that was lost to Internet s... |
| Oct 17, 2024 | Ethiopia's Digital Dilemma: Balancing Essential Services and Internet Freedom | Ethiopia stands at a crossroads. On one side, a burgeoning initiative to deliver essential commodities via technology. On the other, a grim reality of internet restrictions that stifle freedom and economic growth. This duality paints a comp... |
| Oct 16, 2024 | Ethiopia Ranks Lowest for Internet Freedom Among 17 African Nations, As Govt Continues to Impose Internet Shutdowns | Addis Abeba — Ethiopia has received the lowest internet freedom score among 17 African nations assessed in Freedom House's "Freedom on the Net 2024" report, scoring 27 out of 100 and earning a "Not Free" rating.
The repo... |
| Jun 7, 2024 | 88 percent of free Android VPNs leak data | New research from Top10VPN has captured and analyzed the network traffic of the 100 most popular free VPNs on Google's Play Store and reviewed their source code.
The findings are rather worrying, showing that 88 percent suffer some kind of ... |
| May 20, 2024 | Топ-5 ИБ-событий недели по версии Jet CSIRT | Сегодня в ТОП-5 — новые классы угроз на процессоры Intel и AMD, уязвимости в Google Chrome, кризис для базы данных уязвимостей NVD, разбор эксплойта в Foxit PDF Reader, уязвимость в SSID Confusion в Wi-Fi. Новости подготовил аналитик центра... |
| May 20, 2024 | Эксперты раскрыли детали уязвимости CVE-2023-52424 в работе Wi-Fi под названием SSID Confusion Attack | Эксперты по ИБ из Лёвенского католического университета в Бельгии (в 2016 году они обнаружили атаку KRACK, позволяющую взломать WPA2) раскрыли детали уязвимости CVE-2023-52424 в стандарте Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11. Уязвимость получила название SSID... |
| Jan 16, 2024 | Kenya’s $27 billion loss underscores the devastating cost of social media shutdowns in Africa | Last November, Kenya experienced an unexpected shutdown of Telegram, one of its most popular social media platforms. The outage lasted for eight days and coincided with the national exams for secondary school students. It led people to beli... |
| Sep 26, 2023 | Erudit raises $10M to monitor workplaces for ‘misalignment’ | Employee surveillance is on the rise. According to one poll, searches for staff-monitoring software rose by 75% in March 2020 compared with the 2019 monthly average — and demand remained strong in 2021 and 2022.
It’s a spike mostly attribut... |
| Aug 3, 2023 | African countries with internet restrictions so far in 2023 | Picture a scenario where you wake to find yourself cut off from the realm of social media. No more scrolling through Instagram to view high-definition pictures, no LinkedIn for forging professional connections, and no Twitter for engaging i... |
| Jul 9, 2023 | Что не так с бесплатным VPN | В 2022 году Россия заняла второе место по использованию VPN в мире после Индии. Рост по количествам скачиваний VPN-сервисов составил 167%: если в 2021 году было скачано 12,59 млн. VPN-приложений, то в 2022 году уже 33,54 млн. О точном колич... |
| Jul 4, 2023 | Россию поставили на девятое место в мире по VPN-цензуре | Аналитики Top10VPN в своем последнем отчете поставили Россию на девятое место в мире по VPN-цензуре.
В ходе исследования эксперты пришли к выводу, что в 32% случаев попытки использования VPN-сервиса в России он оказывался заблокированным. С... |
| Jun 8, 2023 | Senegal shut down its internet, again. | The month of June didn’t start well for Senegal. On Thursday, the first day of the month, several social media platforms, including WhatsApp, Instagram and YouTube, started facing access restrictions in Senegal. And it wasn’t a glitch. The ... |
| Apr 12, 2023 | Opera brings its free VPN to iOS to rival Apple and Google’s paid alternatives | Opera, the makers of an ad-blocking web browser, whose most recent claim to fame is having TikTok built-in, announced today it’s rolling out an updated version of its iOS app that now includes its free VPN. Previously available on Mac, Wind... |
| Feb 3, 2023 | Fake ChatGPT Apps Start to Steal User Data: Delete These Apps Now | Urian B., Tech Times 03 February 2023, 07:02 pm
The rise of artificial intelligence has allowed chatbots to become increasingly popular in recent years. ChatGPT is just one of these chatbots and has become incredibly popular online. Unfortu... |
| Oct 23, 2022 | VPN как мировой мейнстрим | В 2022 году число пользователей VPN-сервисов во всем мире достигло 1,2 млрд, а мировой объем рынка этих сервисов превысил $43 млрд. Скоро пользователей будет еще больше. На минувшей неделе стало известно, что линейка новейших смартфонов от ... |
| Oct 17, 2022 | В Шри-Ланке в 170 раз вырос спрос на VPN-ы, в Иране — в 30 раз. В Беларуси в 2020-м было х7,5 | Отдел новостей 17 октября 2022, 17:14 В Шри-Ланке в 170 раз вырос спрос на VPN-ы, в Иране — в 30 раз. В Беларуси в 2020-м было х7,5
Востребованность VPN-сервисов в Иране в этом сентябре взлетела более чем в 30 раз на фоне протестов, прокати... |
| Sep 20, 2022 | Бытовой инфобез. Как выбрать VPN? | Привет Хабр. Этой статьей мы начинаем цикл «Бытовой инфобез», в котором постараемся дать относительно простые ответы на вопросы личной информационной безопасности. По возможности постараемся не углубляться в сильные дебри, чтобы человеку, н... |
| Aug 4, 2022 | India accounts for most internet shutdown cases in the world in 2022, report | Sohini Bagchi 4 Aug, 2022
India accounted for 85% of internet shutdowns in the first six months of 2022 out of the ten countries where Internet disruptions and restrictions were recorded, said Surfshark and internet watchdog NetBlocks in a ... |
| Jul 26, 2022 | Russia is quietly ramping up its Internet censorship machine | Enlarge
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| Jun 28, 2022 | India Postpones New Data Privacy Law That Drove VPN Providers Away | In a major, albeit temporary, victory for data privacy, the Indian government has decided to delay its new rules for VPN providers by three months.
The law, which stated that VPN providers would need to log user data for up to five years, i... |
| Jun 27, 2022 | India Data Collection Law Enforced Today; PureVPN Shuts Down Servers | VPN provider PureVPN has confirmed it is shutting down its India servers, thus avoiding the ramifications of the new data collection directive scheduled to come into effect in India on June 27th.
VPN companies have been leaving India in dro... |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Centre Bans Third-Party VPNs And Cloud Services In Govt Offices | The move has been taken days after NordVPN, ExpressVPN and Tor announced that they would not comply with the Centre’s new VPN guidelines and subsequently, leaving India
The Centre has also asked its employees to not save any internal, confi... |
| Jun 14, 2022 | VPN Guidelines: After ExpressVPN And Surfshark, NordVPN To Remove Servers From India | NordVPN said that VPN companies will not be able to guarantee privacy for their users under the new rules, hence it will remove its server on June 26
Similar regulations were typically introduced by authoritarian governments in the past in ... |
| Jun 6, 2022 | Yuga Labs confirms Discord server hack; Millions worth of NFTs Stolen | Sohini Bagchi 6 Jun, 2022
Hackers have stolen cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) after compromising a Discord server run by Yuga Labs Inc., the creator of leading NFTs such as the Bored Ape Yacht Club.
The attackers hacked the ac... |
| Jun 1, 2022 | Russia Spent $10 million on VPNs to Bypass its Own Censorship Laws | A new report has revealed that the Russian Federal Treasury has spent almost $10 million on VPN technology since the invasion of Ukraine.
The news is somewhat ironic considering the demand for VPNs among the Kremlin/Kremlin-linked organizat... |
| May 31, 2022 | Russian officials spent $8 million on VPNs which let them dodge the country's online censorship, analysis finds | Russian agencies have spent $8 million on VPN technology, analysis by digital rights group Top10VPN found.
VPNs are commonly used to bypass online censorship systems and content geo-blocks.
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Russian officials are shelling out t... |
| May 13, 2022 | CERT-In’s New VPN Rules To Not Be Applicable To Corporate Networks: Report | The recent government mandate directing VPN providers to collect and store their customer data might not be applicable to enterprise or corporate VPNs, as per an ET report
According to Tejasi Panjiar, Capstone Fellow, Internet Freedom Found... |
| May 8, 2022 | Russia is playing whack-a-mole as it repeatedly blocks niche parts of the internet spreading information about Ukraine, including a pet grooming site, a scary story blog, and a sudoku site | Russia has cracked down on messaging about the Ukraine war that contradicts its state propaganda.
Research found Russia blocked 300 fringe websites hosting identical blocks of text about the war.
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| May 6, 2022 | ProtonVPN classifies India as high-risk country, calls VPN rules assault on privacy | Shouvik Das 6 May, 2022
Swiss privacy focused internet services provider Proton, which operates end to end encrypted email service Protonmail and the popular virtual private network (VPN) tool ProtonVPN, has called out India’s latest cyber ... |
| Mar 20, 2022 | Is That Wordle Clone App Tracking You? Betteridge’s Law Does Not Apply | |
| Mar 19, 2022 | Россия потеряла $861 млн из-за блокировки сайтов и соцсетей | В рейтинге стран, теряющих внушительные суммы из-за принудительного отключения интернет-порталов, за лидирующей в 2022 году Россией следует Казахстан. По подсчетам западных аналитиков, он в этом году упустил $429,5 млн.
Помимо принудительно... |
| Mar 18, 2022 | Russia’s social media shutdown is expensive, costing its economy more than $860 million so far this year | Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
Russia's social media shutdowns have cost the country’s economy $861 million in 2022, highlighting the ste... |
| Mar 10, 2022 | VPN Usage in Russia and Ukraine Has Skyrocketed | Citizens of Russia and Ukraine are trying to get around increasingly strict internet laws by utilizing VPNs in record numbers across both countries.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has had a wide range of surprising consequences. Scores of ... |
| Mar 10, 2022 | Top VPN Software in Russia Grows From 16,000 Daily Average Downloads to 700K Downloads: Over 1000% Increase | Urian B., Tech Times 10 March 2022, 11:03 am
The number of average daily downloads for VPNs in Russia has increased by more than 1000%. With that, Surfshack, a popular VPN provider, said the last time that the company had seen this much inc... |
| Mar 10, 2022 | Russians are flocking to VPNs as Putin closes off the Russian internet in a crackdown against dissent | Moscow launched a crackdown against dissent after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" into Ukraine on February 24. In this photo in annexed Crimea, a placard reads: "Russia does not start... |
| Mar 5, 2022 | Russia blocks Facebook and Twitter access | Amid a crackdown on demonstrators and independent media outlets, the Kremlin blocked access to Facebook and Twitter on Friday.
Russian telecommunications regulator, Roskomnadzor, said the decision to block Facebook was made in response to t... |
| Feb 24, 2022 | “I felt violated… but then I got used to it” – Employee Monitoring Software Is Still Dividing Opinion | In the spring of 2020, the world of work changed forever. Millions of office employees across the globe were sent packing – along with their laptops – and told to work remotely.
For many bosses and business owners, this prompted the questio... |
| Feb 19, 2022 | How to Protect Yourself From Potential iPhone Spy [2022] | Here's What You Need to Check | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 19 February 2022, 11:02 pm
Despite having antivirus, iPhones can be easily penetrated by intruders. The hackers can still gain access in numerous ways, including texts, emails, software, apps, and more that's why it... |
| Jan 20, 2022 | The Fight For Anti-Censorship Tools Continues | This week (January 18) marks the ten-year anniversary of the successful campaign against the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the United States. This proposed legislation threw up grave challenges to the future of an open Internet,... |
| Jan 8, 2022 | Internet censorship cost the global economy $5.5 billion in 2021, report says | Internet shutdowns cost the global economy $5.5 billion in 2021, per digital rights group Top10VPN.
Myanmar was the most severely impacted, losing an estimated $2.8 billion to shutdowns.
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| Dec 8, 2021 | Monitoring Remote Workers: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly | Co-Founder of One WiFi. Author of the new book Remote Work Technology: Keeping Your Small Business Thriving From Anywhere |
| Nov 12, 2021 | VPN apps caught flouting Apple's Request to Track privacy rules | Team TC 12 Nov, 2021
Apple has been one of the most vocal supporters of user privacy. However, it seems the Cupertino giant is struggling to enforce some of its rules on app developers, a new study suggests.
Early this year, Apple rolled ou... |
| Aug 10, 2021 | У жительницы Туркменистана потребовали поклясться на Коране, что она не будет использовать VPN | В «Радио Азатлык» (туркменское подразделение «Радио Свободы», признанной в России иностранным агентом) обратилась жительница Туркменистана, представившаяся как Айнур. Она рассказала, что перед установкой интернета провайдер потребовал у неё... |
| Jul 2, 2021 | #TwitterBan: Nigeria’s House of Representatives ends investigations, silent on ban reversal | Share this article:
Three weeks after Nigeria’s House of Representatives set up a committee to investigate the Twitter ban, it has ended its investigation and has given its recommendations. However, it failed to comment on the lifting of th... |
| Jul 1, 2021 | NIN-SIM linkage extended, Eswatini shuts Internet down, Zeepay raises $7.9M Series A and South Africa’s crypto regulation timeline | Share this article:
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Nigerian government postponing NIN-SIM linkage deadline
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| Apr 1, 2021 | Experts say it’s unlikely COVID-19 passports will come about: ‘The vaccine passport could wind up being irrelevant’ | Experts say it’s unlikely an international COVID-19 passport travel system will come about.
They have flagged privacy, inequality, politics, and long-term need as the main problems.
Still, the travel industry is banking on a system to allow... |
| Mar 27, 2021 | Sentinel’s Decentralized VPN Protocol Launches on Cosmos Mainnet | The Sentinel Network, a decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) bandwidth marketplace that supports the Sentinel dVPN application, is now live on the Cosmos mainnet.
“Sentinel is the first project that focuses on offering privacy at the network le... |
| Feb 26, 2021 | Sub-Saharan Africa lost $237.4 million to Internet censorship in 2020 | Share this article:
On the world map, hostility towards Internet use and infringement on freedom of speech are often concentrated in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and some places in South America.
Year after year, citizens living i... |
| Jan 26, 2021 | Immunity passports are riddled with privacy risks, loaded with ethical problems, and might not even help stop the spread of COVID-19, research finds | A federal police officer checks a document of a passenger of a passenger plane landing from Prague at Frankfurt Airport. Boris Roessler/picture alliance via Getty Images
As coronavirus vaccines roll out, immunity passport apps are becoming ... |
| Jan 25, 2021 | Immunity passports are riddled with privacy risks, loaded with ethical problems - research finds | A federal police officer checks a document of a passenger of a passenger plane landing from Prague at Frankfurt Airport.
Boris Roessler/picture alliance via Getty Images
As coronavirus vaccines roll out, immunity passport apps are becoming ... |
| Jan 25, 2021 | Immunity passports are riddled with privacy risks, loaded with ethical problems, and might not even help stop the spread of COVID-19, research finds | As coronavirus vaccines roll out, immunity passport apps are becoming more prevalent.
But new research that analyzed 65 existing apps found that 82% had privacy problems.
Immunity passport apps also risk entrenching existing inequalities, a... |
| Jan 8, 2021 | Internet Shutdowns Cost India $2.8B in 2020: Report | A new report shows India’s regional internet shutdowns in 2020 cost its economy approximately $2.8 billion, making it the country that suffered the most damage from internet manipulation by a government last year.
Internet shutdowns, or the... |
| Jan 5, 2021 | India’s Internet Shutdowns In 2020 Took $2.8 Bn Toll On Economy | India suffered a loss of over $2.8 Bn due to internet shutdowns, a staggering eight times higher than the next most impacted nation i.e. Belarus, as per a new report on the economic impact of internet blackouts and other disruptions to web ... |
| Jan 5, 2021 | 268 million people had their internet shut off by government-imposed blackouts in 2020, up 49% from 2019 | The duration of government-imposed internet shutdowns around the world shot up by 49% in 2020 compared to the previous year, according to a report from Top10VPN.
While the economic impact of these shutdowns was much less than in 2019, the h... |
| Jan 5, 2021 | Top10VPN: отключение интернета стоило Беларуси $336 млн | Александра Кукуть 5 января 2021, 17:12 Top10VPN: отключение интернета стоило Беларуси $336 млн
Согласно новому исследованию компании Top10VPN, блокировки интернета в 2020 году обошлись Беларуси в $336,4 млн. Среди остальных стран дороже зап... |
| Dec 14, 2020 | You should never use a free VPN. Here’s why. | Free VPNs come with a host of privacy risks. Westend61/Getty Images
Lots of people use Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to boost their data privacy and security.
A survey from June this year showed 68% of US internet users use VPNs and of th... |
| Dec 13, 2020 | You should never use a free VPN. Here's why. | Lots of people use Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to boost their data privacy and security.
A survey from June this year showed 68% of US internet users use VPNs and of those, 29% used free VPNs rather than paid services.
Free VPNs come wi... |
| Nov 29, 2020 | Microsoft’s New Productivity Score And Workplace Tracking: Here’s The Problem | Microsoft’s new productivity score, which allows employers to see which 365 products employees are using and for how long, has been called a “privacy nightmare.” What does that mean for you? |
| Nov 25, 2020 | In India, a Clash of Digital Innovation and Internet Censorship | Earlier this month, reacting to a decision by India’s highest court, prominent comedian Kunal Kamra tweeted that India’s Supreme Court is the “most Supreme joke of this country.”
The following day, local media reported that Attorney General... |
| Nov 2, 2020 | Decentralized VPN Sees Increased Use in Nigeria Amid #EndSars Protests | The Takeaway:
Nigerians are adopting more VPNs, including decentralized VPNs.
The adoption comes as #EndSARS protestors are concerned the government may limit access to parts of the internet.
Mysterium, a decentralized VPN, is trying to rea... |
| Sep 22, 2020 | Lockdown Learning Platforms ‘Put Children’s Privacy At Risk’ | Millions of children relied on distance learning platforms to keep up with their education during ... [+] lockdown (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| Jul 2, 2020 | Ethiopia's government shut down the entire country's internet and 80 people have been killed in protests following the assassination of a popular musician | On Monday night Haacaaluu Hundeessaa, an Ethiopian singer and activist, was shot dead.
The killing sparked protests, and since Monday more than 80 people have died.
On Tuesday the Ethiopian government imposed a blanket internet shutdown, cu... |
| Jun 25, 2020 | What your personal identity and data are worth on the Dark Web | Cybercriminals who steal your personal data don’t necessarily use that information themselves. More likely, they’ll sell those tidbits on the Dark Web where a wide audience of people can buy and use them to steal your identity and make a he... |
| Jun 18, 2020 | Privacy Concerns Lead To Deletion Of All Data Collected By Norway's Contact Tracing App | In the early days of the coronavirus outbreak — a few months ago, in other words — there was a flurry of activity around contact tracing apps. Desperate to be seen to be doing something — anything — governments around the world rushed to an... |
| Jun 18, 2020 | Privacy Concerns Lead To Deletion Of All Data Collected By Norway's Contact Tracing App | In the early days of the coronavirus outbreak -- a few months ago, in other words -- there was a flurry of activity around contact tracing apps. Desperate to be seen to be doing something -- anything -- governments around the world rushed t... |
| May 13, 2020 | RedSeal Launches Five New Services to Measurably Reduce Cyber Risk Across Remote Workforces | Secure remote workforce, cyber and cloud cyber visibility assessments along with tiered service offerings ensure overtaxed network infrastructures continue to be secure
In direct response to expanding remote work operations, today RedSeal ... |
| May 2, 2020 | This Week in Apps: Zoom gets busted, TikTok’s new record, contact tracing API launches | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all.
The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $1... |
| Apr 24, 2020 | Demands For Best VPN Surges After WHO Declared Pandemic... But So Are Computer Risks | Jamie P., Tech Times 24 April 2020, 10:04 am
VPN is a virtual private network technology that is mainly responsible for protecting users from any scamming tactics like phishing. To protect yourself from any viruses, you must install and dow... |
| Apr 5, 2020 | Данные смартфонов помогают мониторить пандемию, приватность отменяется | Александра Кукуть Коронавирус 5 апреля 2020, 17:39 Данные смартфонов помогают мониторить пандемию, приватность отменяется
Государства пытаются различными способами, в том числе с помощью информационных технологий, замедлить распространение ... |
| Apr 3, 2020 | Privacy versus pandemic: Tracking mobile phones could allow the government to control the spread of COVID-19 | Source: AAP/Dan Peled.
Borders, beaches, pubs and churches are closed, large events are cancelled, and travellers are subject to 14 days’ isolation — all at significant cost to taxpayers and the economy. But could telecommunications technol... |
| Mar 25, 2020 | VPN Review Site Creates Live Digital Rights Tracker To Compile Coronavirus-Related Surveillance Efforts | Since lots and lots of (mostly government) people seem to agree these particularly desperate times call for particularly privacy-invading desperate measures, it only makes sense someone should be tracking the trackers. Enter Samuel Woodhams... |
| Mar 25, 2020 | VPN Review Site Creates Live Digital Rights Tracker To Compile Coronavirus-Related Surveillance Efforts | Since lots and lots of (mostly government) people seem to agree these particularly desperate times call for particularly privacy-invading desperate measures, it only makes sense someone should be tracking the trackers. Enter Samuel Woodhams... |
| Mar 21, 2020 | 10 countries are now tracking phone data as Covid-19 heralds a massive increase in surveillance | Maverick Asio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Im
As coronavirus sweeps across the globe, governments are stepping up surveillance of their citizens.
A new live index from digital rights group Top10VPN is documenting which countries are in... |
| Jan 17, 2020 | Government-imposed internet blackouts cost the global economy $8 billion in 2019, and 2020 could be even worse | Advertisement
A new report on global internet shutdowns found there were 122 major shutdowns in 2019, and in total they cost the world economy roughly $8 billion.
Internet shutdowns are frequently used to clamp down on civil unrest, particu... |
| Jan 14, 2020 | How sub-Saharan Africa lost $2.16 billion to Internet censorship | Share this article:
Around the world, many nations adopt a more conscious stance where the rights to privacy and access to information are concerned. Mostly motivated by the power of the Internet to initiate unprecedented change over a shor... |
| Jan 10, 2020 | India lost over $1.3 Bn in 2019 to internet shutdowns | With 4,196 hours of internet shutdowns, India is the third worst-hit and economically affected country after Iraq and Sudan, a study has revealed.
The internet blackouts impacting 8.4 million internet users in India cost about $1329.8 milli... |
| Nov 22, 2019 | India emerges as fastest growing market for VPN app downloads | With more than 400% yearly growth in VPN (virtual private network) apps downloaded, India has emerged as the third-largest country after Indonesia and the US with over 57 million downloads.
The significant rise in the growth came in respons... |
| Aug 13, 2019 | Free VPN apps pose a privacy risk on both Android and iOS | Both Apple and Google are allowing numerous potentially unsafe free VPN apps to remain in their app stores, despite being aware of privacy risks according to research from Top10VPN.com.
Among the string of serious privacy issues uncovered b... |
| May 28, 2019 | How digital taxes are hurting connectivity rates across Africa | Share this article:
Several countries in Africa have recently introduced taxes on fundamental parts of the internet. Often considered a means of generating revenue streams during economic hardships, the taxes have ultimately limited connect... |
| Apr 19, 2019 | The UK's Dubious Plan For Age-Based Porn Filters Begins On July 15 | Undaunted by the fact that internet filters never actually seem to work, the UK continues its quest to censor the internet of all of its naughty bits. |
| Jan 22, 2019 | Free Android VPN apps malware-ridden privacy threats | Installing some of the most popular Android free virtual private networking (VPN) apps could not only put users' privacy at risk, but also give them malware, large-scale testing has found.
Privacy Central tested 150 of the most popular free... |
| Dec 12, 2018 | Small Business Cybersecurity: 5 Common Mistakes | As small businesses begin to grow, they’re often quick to hire new employees, find a bigger workspace, and increase their rate of production. Amongst countless new responsibilities, one thing often gets left behind: upgrades to cybersecurit... |
| Mar 9, 2018 | Your stolen Apple ID login is worth PKR 1,700 on the dark web | Well, if you don’t care for your Apple ID, you should, because it has become the most valuable non-financial login.
Your Apple ID is worth $15.39 (approx equal to PKR 1,700) on the dark web, a hidden network of sites that allow people to c... |
| Mar 7, 2018 | On the dark web your identity could cost less than the price of an iPhone X | What's your identity worth? Not very much according to research by VPN comparison service Top10VPN.com.
The site has released its first Dark Web Market Price Index which reveals that an entire personal identity can be bought for just $1,200... |
| Nov 28, 2017 | The strangest ways of stealing data | Most data thefts are down to relatively simple techniques, like phishing, in order to get hold of login credentials. But even where systems are well protected, hackers can find ingenious ways of breaching security.
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| Oct 8, 2017 | Can blockchain decentralize the internet? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
An increasing number of people want to fix the fl... |
| Oct 8, 2017 | Can blockchain decentralize the internet? | An increasing number of people want to fix the flaws of the internet by decentralizing it, including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the world wide web, Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit organization that supports the Firefox browser and... |
| Многие сотрудники никогда не вернутся в офис. Менеджеры усиливают слежку за удалёнщиками
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Алгоритмический менеджмент... | 2021 год войдёт в историю как год удалённой работы. Не из-за пандемии, ведь она была и годом раньше, а из-за определённого сдвига в сознании людей. Многие окончательно поняли, что работать из дома гораздо эффективнее. Более того, определённ... |
| VPN use in Russia is surging as citizens try to bypass government’s tightening internet control | Russians are turning to VPNs to bypass the country’s tightening internet controls following the invasion of Ukraine.
As the invasion continues, Russia is looking to further restrict access to foreign internet platforms. Meta-owned Facebook ... |
| J&K Allowed 2G Services While Rest Of India Awaits 5G | Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has been offline ever since the sudden abrogation of Article 370 and 35A, which provided a special city to the state, in August 2019. In order to avoid the situation getting blown out of proportion, the Bharatiya... |
| Internet Shutdowns Cost Indian Economy More Than $1 Bn In 2019: Report | India was ranked the third worst-hit economies in the world due to internet shutdowns after crisis-hit countries Sudan and Iraq. The UK-based tech research firm Top10VPN, on Tuesday (January 7), revealed that around 4,196 hours of internet ... |
| India’s Internet Shutdowns In 2020 Took $2.8 Bn Toll On Economy | India suffered a loss of over $2.8 Bn due to internet shutdowns, a staggering eight times higher than the next most impacted nation i.e. Belarus, as per a new report on the economic impact of internet blackouts and other disruptions to web ... |
| After ExpressVPN, Surfshark To Shut Down Physical Servers In India | We value people's privacy – that's why we stand against India's new data regulation law. We'll shut down our physical Indian servers: Surfshark
Surfshark said it operates under a strict ‘no logs’ policy, and the new mandates go against the ... |
| Russian officials spent $8 million on VPNs which let them dodge the country's online censorship, analysis finds | A man holds up an anti-Putin placard at a political rally in Hungary, March 2022. Janos Kummer/Getty Images
Russian agencies have spent $8 million on VPN technology, analysis by digital rights group Top10VPN found.
VPNs are commonly used to... |
| Kerala Kicks Off Free Internet Plan To Cover 20 Lakh Families | As a measure to provide free internet access to individuals and making the internet a basic human right, the Kerala government has kicked off its Kerala Fiber Optic Network (KFON) initiative. It was announced as a proposal in 2019 and when ... |
| Russians are flocking to VPNs as Putin closes off the Russian internet in a crackdown against dissent | Moscow launched a crackdown against dissent after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" into Ukraine on February 24. In this photo in annexed Crimea, a placard reads: "Russia does not start... |
