Egyptians forced to use a VPN to access encrypted messaging app Signal
Encrypted messaging just took a blow in Egypt. Since this past weekend, many internet users with an Egyptian IP address are no longer able to send or receive messages or…
Cybersecurity
Private Internet Access funds OpenVPN 2.4 audit by noted cryptographer Dr. Matthew Green
Private Internet Access is happy to announce that an OpenVPN 2.4 audit is going to be completed by noted cryptographer Dr. Matthew Green, assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Information…
Private Internet Access VPN response to Investigatory Powers Act
The United Kingdom has passed a draconian mass surveillance law, the Investigatory Powers Act (IP Act), which will force the collection of UK internet connection records for a whole year.…
A French man has been sentenced to two years in jail because of the contents of his internet history
The contents of your internet history are more than enough to send you to jail in France. A French man has been sentenced to two years in jail for visiting…
Private Internet Access responds to Rule 41 change in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
The recent change to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure would allow a federal magistrate judge to issue a search and seizure warrant for electronic media if the…
Bipartisan group of Senators introduce S.3475 to delay the DOJ from being able to unconstitutionally hack millions of devices with a blanket warrant under an amendment to Rule 41
Rule 41 is set to be changed on December 1st. The Department of Justice (DOJ) is trying to expand the government’s hacking powers to an unconstitutional level using a little-known…
Researchers show that your smartphone’s camera fingerprint allows anyone to track videos and pictures back to you
Your smartphone has a unique camera fingerprint that can be used to match a photo or video with its recording device. A new app created by security researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg…
Traveling businessmen now consider WiFi more of a daily essential than sex, alcohol or even chocolate
Traveling businessmen and businesswomen worldwide consider WiFi to be the utmost daily essential, more important even than sex, alcohol, or chocolate. The shocking results come from the iPass Mobile Professional Report…
Nvidia has made your GPU the newest spying device in your PC
The newest Windows driver update from graphics silicon manufacturer nVidia comes with more than just game optimizations and bug-fixes (and disappointingly little of those at that.) If you have an…
AT&T actually sells leads to DEA and local law enforcement using Project Hemisphere
AT&T has been running a for-profit mass surveillance program, called Project Hemisphere, since 2007. Everybody already knows about AT&T cooperation with NSA mass surveillance metadata database... This is a separate program…