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How to protect yourself from your ISP snooping on the websites you visit
TLDR; To prevent your ISP snooping on the websites you visit, you must not only change your browser settings, you most likely also need to change your DNS settings. Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) connects you to the internet, every request sent can be logged and tells your ISP which websites you visited, down to the hostnames…
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Thai Database Leaks 8.3 Billion Internet Records
Thailand’s largest telecommunications company’s Advanced Info Service (AIS) urgently brought down one of its databases following a leak of more than 8 billion real-time internet records on millions of Thai internet users. The data breach was discovered by security researcher Justine Paine, who found an exposed ElasticSearch database online containing DNS queries and Netflow data…
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What is the new Brave Browser about?
The internet took a deep dive into Brave Private Browser, to figure out why it has become increasingly popular to users. Here’s what you need to know to decide whether Brave’s for you. What makes Brave browser special amongst other browsers is its speed and the privacy protection it provides to users, both a result of its aggressive ad-blocking…
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Keep your email safe from hackers and trackers using Firefox Private Relay
Firefox Private Relay is a new add-on service by Firefox maker Mozilla; the service is designed to reduce unwanted emails and spam by generating unique aliases acting as a proxy email service to hide the user’s email address from advertisers and spam operators when signing up for a web form. The service entered testing last month…
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How to Change PHP Version of Your Websites
Update: PHP 7.4 is available (August 2020) While it is a best practice to always use the latest version of PHP, compatibility is also an important factor to consider before upgrading. Starting May 2020 it is now possible to choose which PHP version your account uses via the Control Panel. Note: this is done per account (username), not…
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Zoom’s 5.0 Update Improves Encryption, Adds Meeting Security Features
As the COVID-19 virus spread across the globe, the business landscape was forced to make a number of swift changes. Almost overnight, the video conferencing app Zoom becomes the go-to option to hold lessons, business meetings, and sensitive discussions. The surge in popularity, the firm was also bombarded for issues related to its privacy and…
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Effective Tools You’ll Need to Work From Home
One of the ways to slow down the spread of the Corona virus (and keeping hospitals within their capacity) is by working remote. Seemingly overnight, remote work has become part of many people’s workweek. The concept of working from home is not the same as sitting in an office together. While you save time on…
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Apple sets limit of SSL to 1 year and Let’s Encrypt has issued a billion free certificates
Let’s Encrypt, which offers free multi-domain HTTPS certificates has now issued a billion free SSL certificate in the last 4 years. Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated and open certificate signing authority (CA) from the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). has officially announced with a blog post stated it’s issued a billion certificate since…
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Guide on How to Use Firefox’s Tools to Protect Your Privacy Online
Mozilla’s Firefox browser is widely regarded as the most privacy-friendly mainstream browser available. The reason for its popularity among privacy-heads is the large number of add-ons available that can greatly improve the privacy and security of your browsing. This will show you how you can make Firefox more private and secure with a few simple steps. Read…
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Refreshed Interface
Version 2.7.0 brings many small updates together in an improved interface that just feels better. A lot of time has gone into the little details such as the new work-time chart, comment section and background images. Budgets and comments are now visible behind a more… button. When auto-saving, a subtle gradient animation is displayed on…
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The Fight Over Encrypted DNS
Privacy and Security specialists are in the middle of a very public fight over the future of internet encryption. At stake is how DNS traffic – the network queries that translate people-friendly domain names into server IP addresses-should be encrypted. No one is arguing that DNS shouldn’t be encrypted. The disagreement is over how that encryption…
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The Fantasy of Opting Out
In today’s digital world, most of the things that we need are just one click away with our computers and cellphones. As a user, you are constantly monitored. But that is also up to the user. If you want to be monitored less then you should perhaps not enjoy all those services. Is it perhaps too much…