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Learn How You Can Watch Better TV Shows Than Your Friends
This article aims to demonstrate how simply and easily you can access more streaming libraries, regardless of your location. If you want to watch the best TV shows that Netflix has to offer, keep reading and you will learn exactly what you need. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and many more have helped many of us…
Are home workers putting their jobs at risk?
As much of the nation continues to work from home, a new study has revealed that British workers’ security and cybersecurity practices could be putting their jobs at risk in 2021. A poll of 2,043 UK workers carried out by VPNOverview.com found that a staggering 68% of employees do not think about the security impact of working…
Global VPN downloads surge in 2020, Arab countries lead
Arab Countries like UAE, pictured, are leading the way with VPN downloads According to data based on the VPN Adoption Index by Atlas VPN, Virtual Private Network (VPN) downloads reached 277 million in 2020 worldwide with Arab countries showing the highest levels of growth. A Virtual Private Network hides the…
Half of UK adults don’t trust online information
Nearly half of UK adults do not trust the integrity of online information, a new survey from VPN provider TunnelBear reveals. The study, which looks at global perspectives on online censorship experiences from the UK, US, Canada, Australia, Russia, Norway and Sweden shows large segments of people in each country do not trust the information…
Cyberattacks on US companies skyrocket 93% in 12 months
According to the Atlas VPN investigation, companies across North America reported a 93% increase in cyberattacks in the past 12 months. As many as 88% of respondents believe that the rise in cyberattacks was a result of employees working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Over 23% of the respondents saw an uptick in attack volumes between 1-25%.…
UK employees working longest hours during Coronavirus homeworking
According to new data from NordVPN Teams, UK employees are working some of the longest hours in the world during the global coronavirus pandemic, logging on to their business VPN on average 11 hours a day since March 11. Daniel Marcusson, Digital Privacy Expert of NordVPN Teams, said: “The analysis of our clients indicated that tens…
5 Apps Every Android Geek Must Have on Their Phone
How secure is your phone or tablet? If you needed to send private information right now, could you be sure that your information is protected? For people who use public Wi-Fi or poorly-maintained mobile data, the answer is no. Security for most people means luck, a bit of hope that they won’t be the target of random…
Are VPN app providers misusing data? Survey shows many run without adequate privacy policies
Apple and Google failing to provide proper oversight of VPN apps and putting consumers’ privacy at risk by allowing poor quality apps from secretive companies onto their app marketplaces Unsuspecting users are routing their entire mobile internet traffic through servers operated by companies, most of which have minimal online presence and whose privacy policies offer…
Password hacking: how to secure your accounts
Image: fbi.gov In late 2017, the security monitoring team at 4iQ made a stunning discovery while investigating the Dark Web. Somebody (or a group of people) had uploaded a vast database of 1.4 billion User IDs and passwords. Every record was presented unencrypted, in clear text format. So anyone with access…
One in Five Fortnite Android apps are fake and could be spying on you, claims new research
Fans of Fortnite could be at serious risk as more than 20% of Android apps claiming to be the game contain ways to spy on unwitting users by requiring them to agree to supremely invasive permissions before being able to install them, according to a new report by Virtual Private Network (VPN) comparison service Top10VPN.com. Ahead of the…
