Europe is accusing China for its intention of blocking Internet

Posted on July 23, 2009 in Misc, Security

In June 2009, the European Commission condemned China of planning to install “Green Dam Youth Escort” filtering software on all the computers that are going to be sold. At this moment the pre-installation is a little bit delayed because the PC producers said that the installation takes extra time.
China sustain that the reason why they [...]

5 things I hate about ISPs

Posted on July 23, 2009 in Misc, Security

Lately I spoke with a friend that was very upset and disturbed by his Internet Service Provider client support. Changing the ISP is not an option because they are holding his phone number and getting other would mess up his plans.

Troubleshooting problems through the automated system. This is the first and most annoying thing and [...]

Top free hide IP address software of 2009

Posted on July 17, 2009 in Free Hide IP, Misc, Security

After talking about top methods to hide your IP address, top web proxy sites to use I thought it would be the time for the top free applications that hide the IP. You can find a short review for each of them, listed randomly.
UltraSurf is a free hide IP address that works very fine. I [...]

Pros and cons of a VPN connection

Posted on July 15, 2009 in Misc, Security

A VPN is about creating a Virtual Private Network or tunnel over the public network “Internet”. The technology is very popular mostly among businesses than home users.
Advantages:

If you have a group that needs to share files over a long period of time, the option of creating a VPN is a good decision.
Also this is an [...]

Top 10 web proxy sites

Posted on July 14, 2009 in Misc, Security, Web Proxies

In a previously post I spoke about top methods used to hide the IP address and to stay invisible online. There were no examples given so I thought that for each category I should make a list with the top applications, toolbars and web proxies used.

Hide My Ass. Is one of the best, a top [...]

IP Hider 4.5 – new version available

Posted on July 10, 2009 in IP Hider

We have just launched a new version of IP Hider. The development team has improved the interface especially in Smart Mode adding new countries related to the premium proxy list. Regarding the functionalities, there were improvements made regarding the anonymity process. With this new release, users will benefit of the exclusively dedicated premium proxies [...]

Social security codes cracked

Posted on July 8, 2009 in Misc, Security

So where is our privacy?
Can you imagine your security code getting in wrong hands? I know it’s not pleasant news (excluding for identity thefts), but researchers say there’s a surprisingly easy way for the technology-savvy to figure out the nine digits of the security numbers. The one who discovered it is Alessandro Acquisti of Carnegie-Mellon [...]

Top methods to stay invisible online

Posted on July 6, 2009 in Free Hide IP, Misc, Security, Web Proxies

If you hit the search bar in Google looking for methods of hiding the IP address in order to obtain an anonymous browsing, to unblock websites, bypass filters etc, you will get thousands of results. And you have to deeply search and analyze to see which are the most used methods and best resources to [...]