Keeping your digital footprint clean during quarantine
Right now the news is being flooded by articles highlighting the importance and efficacy of physical sanitation habits. Tips that you’ve undoubtedly heard an inundating number of times by now…
General Privacy News
How to avoid Coronavirus scam websites, calls, and texts
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought out the best - and worst - in human society. While people around the world have come together in solidarity to try and flatten the…
Private Internet Access announces another year of Let’s Encrypt sponsorship
Private Internet Access is proud to announce a second year of Silver Sponsorship of Let’s Encrypt. Private Internet Access believes that every website should be served encrypted over HTTPS for…
UK government plans to let more agencies access internet connection records with Investigatory Powers Act expansion
The Investigatory Powers Act was passed in 2016 and mandated that internet service providers and mobile data providers in the UK store internet connection records for twelve months. Internet connection…
What’s the best approach for building Bluetooth-based tracing apps as a way out of the pandemic lockdowns?
As the coronavirus pandemic continues, governments around the world are desperately trying to find a way to ease current lockdowns without triggering massive new waves of infection by Covid-19. There…
ZecOps discovers current iOS mail app vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild
A zero-click security vulnerability has been found that leaves hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads vulnerable to remote code execution. The vulnerability affects iOS 13 through the MobileMail app.…
Tor Project lets go of a third of staff due to COVID-19
The Tor Project, the non profit organization behind the Tor (The Onion Router) Browser, has let go of roughly a third of its staff due to the COVID-19 crisis. Tor…
How often does your IP address change without a VPN?
A new study on IP address has been released. Specifically, the study looks at IP address retention periods of internet service providers (ISPs) around the world. The study is titled:…
Open source, open science: the coronavirus crisis is when openness comes into its own
Open source figures frequently on this blog. That's in part because Private Internet Access is a long-time supporter of free software, and is in the process of open-sourcing its own…
Why small businesses should buy VPN subscriptions for their employees
The internet is an essential part of business nowadays for businesses small and large. While large businesses often utilize site to site VPNs as part of their cybersecurity plan, the…