Telegram Scams: How They Work and How to Avoid Them
A Telegram message from a recruiter, support agent, investor, or familiar contact can seem harmless at first. But sometimes the person behind the account isn’t who they claim to be.…
Sayb Saad
Sayb Saad is a privacy and cybersecurity writer at PIA who doesn’t take feature lists at face value. With more than five years of experience covering VPNs and digital security, he prefers to test tools himself, dig into how they work, and translate the findings into advice people can actually use. When he’s away from the screen, he recharges outdoors or hangs out with his feline sidekick.
Posts by Sayb Saad:
What Is Rate Limiting? How It Works and Why It Happens
If you see an “HTTP 429: Too Many Requests” error, or a message asking you to try again later, the service you’re using may have applied a rate limit. The…
What Is Credential Dumping? How It Works and How to Detect It
A single hacked device can give an attacker access to much more than the account they used to break in. It may also expose sign-in data tied to admin accounts…
What Is PKI? How Certificates Establish Digital Trust
When you connect to your bank's website, send an encrypted email, or install new software, how do you know you're actually dealing with the real thing and not an impostor?…
Roblox Ban Guide: Account Bans, IP Bans, and Appeals
Since a Roblox ban can refer to several types of restrictions, it can be hard to know whether you’re dealing with a temporary account suspension, a ban from a single…
How to Turn Off Restricted Mode on YouTube on Any Device
You open YouTube to search for something, but instead of what you wanted to watch, you see a message saying, “Some results are hidden because Restricted Mode is turned on.”…
Residential VPN: What Is It and Do You Need One?
Residential VPNs can make your internet connection look more like ordinary home traffic to websites. That can be useful in some situations, but the way the service gets its residential…
What Is an L2TP VPN and Is It Still Safe to Use?
Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) has been around for decades, so you may still see it in older devices or network settings. It’s a tunneling protocol that moves your data…
Does a VPN Slow Down the Internet? Why It Happens and How to Fix It
Turn on your VPN and suddenly everything feels slower? Some speed loss is normal when using a VPN because your traffic travels through an encrypted VPN tunnel to the VPN…
VPN With Port Forwarding: Full Setup Guide
VPN port forwarding opens a port on your VPN server, letting devices outside your home network connect to an app or service on your device without opening that port on…