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13Aug/21

How Private Is My VPN?

August 13, 2021SecurityAlfred Ng, Articles, Computing, Creative Commons, Dom Dimas, ExpressVPN, Harold Li, Howard Clabo, Human rights, Identity management, Internet privacy, IVPN, Julia Petryk, LinkedIn, Mallory Knodel, Paul-Olivier Dehaye, Privacy law, Privacy policy, Shannon Morse, Technology, Terms of service, Tyler Miller, Usman Choudhary, Viktor Vecsei, Virtual private network, VPN servicesmbale


VPNs promise privacy, but The Markup found their apps and websites full of trackers
By: Alfred Ng 
For the last seven years, Shannon Morse has been making videos on security and privacy tips on YouTube. That includes reviews of Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs—software that encrypts your network traffic so that internet service providers or people on the same Wi-Fi network as you can’t spy on your activity.

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05Feb/16

Tech sell off sends Wall St lower at week’s end

February 5, 2016FinanceALPHABET, Amazon, Amazon.com, American brands, Business/Finance, Dow Jones Industrial Average, DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE INDEX, e-commerce, Facebook, Finance, Gav Levanon, LinkedIn, Microsoft, NASDAQ, Nasdaq Composite, NASDAQ COMPOSITE INDEX, Netflix, New York, New York Stock Exchange, S&P 500 INDEX - CBOE, Tableau Software, United States, Wall Streetsmbale

Weak forecasts from tech companies including LinkedIn and worries about lofty valuations sends Wall St lower to end the week.
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19Oct/15

Yahoo kills passwords for email

October 19, 2015SecurityComputing, Email, Facebook, LinkedIn, LinkedIn hack, Microsoft, Password, Satnam Narang, Security, smartphone, Symantec, Symantec Corp, Webmail, Websites, Yahoo!, Yahoo! Inc, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Voices hacksmbale

(BVO) – A small step toward making passwords passé.

Yahoo is beefing up cyber security – by eliminating passwords.
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12Oct/15

Iran-based hackers use fake LinkedIn profiles to spy on targets

October 12, 2015SecurityAirbus, American brands, CNN, Companies, Dell, Dell SecureWorks, Doosan, Hacker, Human resource management, Identity theft, Iran, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Corp, NEXT MEDIA, Northrop Grumman, Petrochemical Industries Co., Recruitment, Secureworks, Teledyne, Television, United Statessmbale

IRAN (Next Media) – A new report by a research team at Dell SecureWorks has uncovered a network of fake LinkedIn profiles suspected of being created by Iran-based hackers in order to obtain confidential information from targets.
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