July-2017

Lately VPNs or Virtual Private Networks have been highly demanded in several countries around the world as there has been a wide spread of government online censorship, government online surveillance, cyber crimes, and several other online issues and risks. Until recently VPNs was the best answer for all these issues

Based in Geneva, Switzerland, ProtonVPN is a new VPN service that was launched last June by ProtonMail to provide a more secure and private internet environment for internet users, especially activists and outspoken journalists on the web. In this review, we will dissect all the features provided by ProtonVPN.

In an attempt to toughen the online restrictions, the Chinese government has ordered the popular VPN service, GreenVPN, to shut down all its operations in China. GreenVPN was considered, by many internet users in China "the best VPN". It was the best alternative to unblocking the countless blocked websites by the Great Firewall of China.

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On July 12th, a large number of giant tech companies, most notably Amazon, have collaborated for a “Day of Action” to save the people’s right for an open internet by protesting against the US Federal Communications Commission’s proposal to stamp out Obama’s net neutrality rules.

There is a simple way to change the DNS used by a computer. This way or method differs from one operating system to another. In this tutorial we will be demonstrating how the DNS can be changed in the network settings on Windows 10 by going through a few simple steps.

Although internet users in Belgium do not face any problems with online censorship, they still face 2 serious online risks; online surveillance by the NSA among other entities and a severe rise in cyber crimes. Belgium is like most European countries when it comes to online surveillance.

DNS server addresses are usually provided by internet service providers to their customers and are configured automatically on their routers or modems. Giant ISPs run their own DNS server networks, in addition, there are a lot of free DNS servers on the internet that can be used as alternatives.

Ever since the famous civil war in Algeria in the nineties and the government has been building an advanced infrastructure which gives it high surveillance capabilities. Even though the Algerian president in 2006 had pardoned all the journalists that have been accused with defamation charges.

On Tuesday, the world witnessed another wave of hair-raising cyber-attacks that hit computer servers in Ukraine and spread internationally across Europe to reach the United States, Australia and even India.