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Piracy Alternatives From HBO: A Concession to “TV Hackers”

For many years, there’s been an understanding in the entertainment world that HBO has built itself into a household name for premium television content. But with new technologies proliferating over the last couple of decades, the world of cable television has changed, and now HBO faces an enormous privacy problem. For the last couple of […]

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Best Wireless Wi-Fi Routers

Even if you aren’t the most technically inclined person, by now you should understand how important it is to have a solid Wi-Fi router in your home or small office. However, not every SOHO (small office/home office) router was created equally. You need to keep in mind your goals for your home network. The average […]

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PureVPN Expands Service to Over 100 Countries – 10% Off Promo

This month, PureVPN is celebrating a milestone of providing servers across more than 100 countries! Having 100+ countries might not be a need for all VPN users, but it certainly makes them available to a whole lot more people across the globe, and with more than 450 servers spanned across the globe, you’re well covered […]

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Edward Snowden Calls Canadian Oversight on Government Spying One of the Weakest of All Westerns Intelligence Agencies

Last month, legislation passed a second reading on the controversial Canadian Anti-Terror mass surveillance Bill C-51, showing just how determined the Canadian government is to undermine the privacy of the whole population. This comes as a little surprise to many, with several revelations last year of Canadians being spied on Facebook, or while connected to […]

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How to setup a VPN on iOS 8

Setting up VPN on iOS is quite simple nowadays. Apple’s iOS 8 offers a couple of ways to connect through private VPN servers, be it the least ideal, slow, and repetitive manual configuration, or through the 3rd party apps offered by the VPN provider of your choice. Whether you want to get access to restricted sites, […]

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Is uTorrent Safe?

A surge of complaints from uTorrent users this week has possibly caused a large number of of them to uninstall the software, and completely ditch them for good. A recent build was installing a ‘bloatware’ miner without authorization from user, cranking up CPU and GPU use on their machines, and people quickly took notice. Bittorrent and […]

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How a VPN Service Works

VPN Services or Virtual Private Networks are a great way for you to browse freely, securely and with an additional layer of privacy. How does VPN work? Our video below explains in a simple presentation how VPNs secure your connection & the why you may want to use it. I try to explain it in […]

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NSA Gemalto Simcard Bug

As if there weren’t enough reasons to be terrified in the world already we’ve just had a new piece of information be discovered in the massive Edward Snowden leak and it is terrifying. Have you ever heard of a company named Gemalto? No, you probably haven’t, few of us have; but I’m willing to bet […]

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China’s War on the Internet

The past few days has been an exciting time for the denizens of internet-ville. We’ve had the Pacquiao Mayweather super fight announcement, the release of the world’s first LTE smartwatch, and a scary new story from the Edward Snowden leak about a James Bond-esque NSA operation that successfully managed to hack the company that makes […]

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Canadian ISPs Now Sending Out Notices for Illegal Downloading

If you’re in Canada, you’ve probably already heard news of the final part of the Copyright Modernization Act would be implement at the start of the New Year.  In effect since January 1st, all Canadian Internet providers and hosting providers are now obliged to forward copyright infringement notices from copyright holders, to subscriber IP addresses, […]

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Swedish ISP offers free VPN in wake of data retention law

Swedish ISP Bahnhof has begun offering their users a free VPN service in order to hide and protect their data from law enforcement. This coincides with a recent lawsuit which demanded that the ISP  retain all users data for up to a 6 month period. With the loss of a court decision contesting the EU […]

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iPhone & iPad users warned of “Masque Attack”

Recent security news alerted iOS users of what’s known as a “masque attack”. iPhone & iPad users have to watch for a new exploit within iOS 7/8 that can steal secure data such as logins, passwords, remote monitoring, and other sensitive data. The US government themselves, have gone on record alerting the public of this […]

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Self-Destructing SSD’s

Data security has jumped to a whole new level with self destructing SSD’s. Solid State Drives are flash based hard drive technology that have become popular over the last couple of years due to their speed & form factors. Despite their smaller profile, SSDs use flash in order to double their transfer speeds compared to […]

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CBS Reporter Claims to Have Been Hacked by a Government Agency

A former CBS reporter has claimed that her computer was hacked by a government agency during her time working for the news giant. Stating that the network was out to kill any stories which painted President Obama in a bad light. Sharyl Attkisson, former reporter, had discovered this breach of her computer when she had […]

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ComputerCOP Software Distributed to Parents Is Far from Being Safe

For several years, law enforcement agencies have been distributing software known as ComputerCOP. As a promotion to “protecting their children online”. This software been handed out by many local police officers & even chiefs in an effort to create a “safer” experience for families. According to a report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the concern […]

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