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300 shades of gray: a look into free mobile VPN apps

September 10, 2019 admin Android, anonymity, Apple App Store, black mirror, CDT, centennials, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, CSIRO, dark web, DNS hijacking, DNS leak, emerging markets, encryption, fake AV, free, free VPN, Global Web Index, GlobalWebIndex, google play store, Guideline 5.4, Hotspot Shield, Hotspot Shield complaint, Innet VPN, iOS, IPv6 leak, KilpVip, Luminati, malvertising, millenials, mobile VPN apps, motivations for VPN usage, MyMobileSecure, NETFLIX, onion browser, privacy, Queen Mary University of London, risk-free, Rob Mardisalu, rogueware, Sapienza University of Rome, Secnet VPN, Simon Migliano, TheBestVPN, top 20 VPN apps, Top10VPN, transparency, UC Berkeley, University of South Wales, virtual private networks, VPN

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 16:41:45 +0000

Mobile VPN apps are one of the best tools for protecting user privacy. Unfortunately, a notable number of are deemed unsafe. Read on to find out how to assess the best mobile VPN for you.

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Independent Krebs

U.S. Mobile Giants Want to be Your Online Identity

September 12, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, AT&T, International Computer Science Institute, Johannes Jaskolski, LocationSmart, Nicholas Weaver, number port-out scams, Project Verify, Security Tools, Securus Technologies, SIM swap, Sprint, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, UC Berkeley, Verizon

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 20:58:31 +0000

The four major U.S. wireless carriers today detailed a new initiative that may soon let Web sites eschew passwords and instead authenticate visitors by leveraging data elements unique to each customer’s phone and mobile subscriber account, such as location, customer reputation, and physical attributes of the device. Here’s a look at what’s coming, and the potential security and privacy trade-offs of trusting the carriers to handle online authentication on your behalf.

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Study: Attack on KrebsOnSecurity Cost IoT Device Owners $323K

May 7, 2018 admin Akamai, ddos, ddos-for-hire, google, IdioT, Internet of Things, IoT, Kim Fong, Kurt Hepler, Mirai, NETSCOUT Arbor, Peter Rowland, Project Shield, Rohit Raghavan, UC Berkeley

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 07 May 2018 16:47:20 +0000

A monster distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) against KrebsOnSecurity.com in 2016 knocked this site offline for nearly four days. The attack was executed through a network of hacked “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices such as Internet routers, security cameras and digital video recorders. A new study that tries to measure the direct cost of that one attack for IoT device users whose machines were swept up in the assault found that it may have cost device owners a total of $323,973.75 in excess power and added bandwidth consumption. My bad.

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‘Petya’ Ransomware Outbreak Goes Global

June 27, 2017 admin bitcoin, DLA Piper, Eternal Blue, Group-IB, ICSI, ISACA, Legal Week, Maersk, microsoft windows, MS17-010, Nicholas Weaver, Other, Petya, ransomware, Shadow Brokers, Symantec, UC Berkeley

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 20:18:43 +0000

A new strain of ransomware dubbed “Petya” is worming its way around the world with alarming speed. The malware appears to be spreading using a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows that the software giant patched in March 2017 — the same bug that was exploited by the recent and prolific WannaCry ransomware strain.