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Hacktivism and vandalism were the main motivations for DDoS attacks last year
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are growing in size, frequency and complexity, according to the latest Annual Infrastructure Report from Arbor Networks. The security vendor’s 10th Annu...
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Is ransomware the greatest highway robber of the 21st century?
The days of a Dick Turpin type of character pulling you over on the side of the road and demanding your valuables in return for sparing your life are thankfully long gone but highway robbery has never...
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The KooZoo camera app: It's a jungle out there
This post was originally published on January 28, 2015. What if you could turn smartphones or iPods into a streaming cameras, then get a look at what other people doing the same thing were streaming w...
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Internet Systems Consortium site hacked
This post was originally published on January 7, 2015. This week the Internet Systems Consortium site was hacked. Visitors to the site, which develops the BIND DNS, OpenReg, ISC AFTR and ISC DHCP t...
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Top 10 security breaches of 2014
That's right folks, it's time. Time for a roundup of the year's worst IT security breaches and how they've impacted the tech market at large. And away we go, with: 1) University of Maryland Let's sta...
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Encrypted chat apps: Give 'em nothing to talk about
This post was originally published on December 22, 2014. We've since done a follow-up post about even more encrypted chat apps for you to keep your conversations private! In the wake of NSA snooping r...
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ExpressVPN supports National Cyber Security Awareness Month 2014
Did you know? October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. During October, Stay Safe Online is encouraging everybody to raise awareness about safety and security while browsing the internet. Ho...
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Why we should all care about metadata surveillance
This post was originally published on April 25, 2014. Hopefully, Snowden’s revelations about the NSA’s surveillance of phone call metadata are still fresh in your minds. “But it’s just metadat...
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Our reaction to Prism and NSA spying
This past week we've seen a flurry of media coverage related to privacy in electronic communications. It started with reports that Verizon, a US telecom provider, furnishes the National Security Agenc...
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ExpressVPN protects you from password sniffing programs
As some of you may recall, back around late-2010, a new Firefox extension was released that allowed an individual to hijack numerous accounts of users connected to public WiFi access points -- everyth...
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