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Turkey has begun blocking direct access to the Tor anonymous browsing network as part of a continuous wide ranging assault on people within the country who attempt to bypass the governmentâs draconian internet censorship. The watchdog group Turkey Blocks has confirmed that Turkey is blocking the Tor anonymity network’s direct access mode for most... Read more
As the days have rolled by, news has emerged that a recent Windows software update has been causing internet connectivity problems for Windows devices across the world. While the news seems to so far have been most widely reported in the U.K., and Europe, the problem seems to having... Read more
Watch TV, Movies And Sport For Free With ChillGlobal Chrome Extension
InternetSoftware Reviews December 22, 2016
Today’s wide variety of online options means more and more consumers are ditching their monthly cable television providers and turning to the opportunities that various subscription-based streaming services can provide. But while Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and other similar platforms are running a steady business based on the content... Read more
Google has signed an agreement with the Cuban government giving the small communist-governed island faster internet access. As part of the new deal, Google will install its own servers in Cuba to vastly improve connection speeds to both Google services such as Gmail and YouTube, but also the internet... Read more
Amazon has grown to be one of the world’s largest retailers and most recognized brand logos, which is reason enough for scammers to attempt to use the company for phishing emails. Joining the ranks of long-time co-victim sites like PayPal and Visa, Amazon has recently been the reported association... Read more
Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and You Tube have jointly teamed up to try and prevent the spread of extremist and terrorist content through their sites. Extremist and violent content shared on social media will be digitally fingerprinted by the four tech giants to try and prevent it going viral. The... Read more
Google has taken action to alter some autocomplete suggestions in its search engine after it was alerted to anti-Semitic, sexist and racists entries by UK newspaper, The Observer. The autocomplete suggestion that was the focus in this case was âAre JewsâŠ.â The Google algorithmâs first result was, up until a... Read more
Both proponents and critics of internet of things (IoT) connected devices have long questioned their security, at least from a hacking standpoint. From Nest thermostats that were intentionally hacked to prove a point to the potential for insulin pumps and glucose meters to be manipulated with life-threatening consequences, there... Read more
Hundreds of thousands of Deutsche Telekom customers in Germany had their broadband service cut off, or severely slowed, on Sunday following a Mirai-bot hack-attack on its hardware. As Sunday turned into Monday, the scale of the widespread attack on the maintenance interfaces of certain types broadband routers owned by Deutsche... Read more
Mozilla Launches Private Browser For iOS: Firefox Focus
InternetNewsSoftware Reviews November 22, 2016
Mozilla has announced the launch of Firefox Focus â promising free, fast and easy to use private browsing for iOS devices. Firefox Focus is for the times when you donât want to leave a record on your phone⊠You know, for information that in certain situations is sensitive, such... Read more
Mozilla Releases Firefox 50
InternetNewsSoftware Reviews November 21, 2016
Firefox 50:Â Faster, Stronger, Smarter? And so, Mozilla have unleashed the new stable Firefox 50 browser onto the internet. The good news for Firefox desktop aficionados is that the new browser update will be rolled out and automatically installed across all the operating systems, including 32 and 64 bit versions... Read more
Advanced IP Scanner 2.4.3021 Released
InternetSoftware Reviews November 18, 2016
The culmination of year’s worth of work behind the scenes from Famatech has resulted in the new version of the free network scanner for Windows, Advanced IP Scanner 2.4 3021. Having used several IP Scanning programs over the years both for solving work and LAN gaming issues, including previous... Read more
The official Canadian website for ‘Citizenship and Immigration Canada’ has stopped working. Speculation across the internet seems to point to the sheer number of people from the USA investigating the idea of moving to their northern neighbourâs country. Data from Google seems to indicate that searches for âmove to... Read more
According to data released by StatCounter for October, mobile devices were used more often for web browsing than traditional desktop machines. The figures show that combined mobile and tablet devices accounted for 51.3 percent of worldwide web use compared to 48.7 percent via desktop. OK, so thereâs only a... Read more
Control Your Security & Privacy With Secure Browser
InternetPrivacy and SecuritySoftware Reviews November 2, 2016
Despite all the hype and attention that surrounds the “Big Three” of internet browsers, there are far more options than the standard internet user may realize. Each of the lesser-known options has its best features and its selling points, but there may be no bigger factor in this current... Read more
The Ecuadorian government has confirmed that it has “temporarily restricted” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assangeâs access to the internet at its embassy in London. On Tuesday Ecuadorâs foreign ministry released an official communique stating that the country “exercised its rightâŠâŠtemporarily restrict access to someâŠprivate communications network within its Embassy in... Read more
In a sign of just how far and how integrated the on-line gaming community has become, the funeral of a 24-year-old professional has been streamed live on video gaming platform Twitch. Philip âPhizzurpâ Klemenov, a well-known pro gamer and live streamer had his life tragically cut short when he was involved... Read more
Source code that was used to mount one of the biggest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks ever seen has been released into the wilds of the internet prompting massive fears that widespread DDoS attacks will become everyday occurrences around the globe. The Mirai malware botnet, was used to... Read more