July-2017

On Monday, the leftist website, BelAhmar, was officially blocked for all internet service providers in Egypt. This added to the total number of blocked websites in Egypt raising them to 127. This was according to the information collected by the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression or...

Giant messaging app WhatsApp is currently being targeted by fraudsters and identity thieves. Users have been warned from giving out their personal bank details since the app does not request its users to share this kind of sensitive data in such manner even if the message looks like any regular ...

The Federation Council in Russia just approved 2 laws that are intended to legalize the use of censorship bypassing services like VPNs, Tor, and proxies, in addition to the use of online messaging services that encrypt the information transmitted through them such as WhatsApp. They also are suppos...

Xinjiang is considered to be China’s largest province with a total of 19 million residents. It is inhabited by Muslim Uighur minority that speak Turkic and form roughly 8 million of its population. The Uighur minority have always complained about severe discrimination by the Chinese government...

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) act as a secure bridge between your device network connection and the remote server you are trying to reach on the internet. However, sometimes, you might face troubles establishing a connection with your VPN server. There are many VPN error code messages, however...

On Sunday, about 1000 protesters marched in the streets of Moscow,Russia with the authorization of the authorities in protest of government online surveillance and online restrictions. Protesters used phrases such as “No to censorship, no to dictatorship”. It even reached the extent that some ...

Why Your VPN Cannot Detect WiFi After Upgrading to Windows 10 Microsoft said that the reason why a VPN connection is not sometimes able to detect active WiFi connections on a recently upgraded Windows 10, is mainly because the VPN connection was active while Windows was being upgraded. Because of...

With every terrorist event that takes place anywhere in the world comes a new excuse in one country or the other to push on a more intense government online surveillance. The most recent move was made by Australia, which is one of the Five Eyes Alliance and hence is one of the 5 countries in the...

Ever since the Sudan civil war in 2013 and the government in South Sudan has been gradually tightening internet access, especially on those websites related to news or politics. The latest blocks have been reported by phone internet users trying to access Sudan Tribune and Radio Tamazuj. This was ...

GPS or Location Services can be problematic to some iOS users sometimes, especially to those who want to maintain their privacy and want to only share their location with selective individuals that they can trust on social media platforms, such as: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, WeChat, etc. Some...