The Tor network was created in the early 2000s as a project at the Naval Research Laboratory, a research institute of the U.S. Army. Since 2006, the independent non-profit organization The Tor Project has been…
Last week, hackers defaced the Internet Archive website with a message that said, “Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security…
The list of problems caused by the Windows 11 24H2 update just keeps getting longer and longer. Not only is it causing blue screen crashes and making mouse cursors disappear, but the update also leaves…
If you’re experiencing a sluggish internet connection, it’s probably time to check the speed. We’ll show you several ways to measure the speed of your internet connection using on-board tools in Windows, Linux, and macOS.…
The Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine cache history have become a staple of in-the-know web users. And like every other service that gets any amount of attention, it’s now come under attack. In addition…
The Internet Archive, the nonprofit organization that digitizes and archives materials like web pages, came under attack Wednesday. Several users – including over at The Verge – confronted a pop-up when visiting the site, reading,…
Archive.org, possibly one of the only entities to preserve the entire history of the Internet, was recently compromised in a hack that revealed data of roughly 31 million users. A little after 2 PM California…
News broke this weekend that China-backed hackers have compromised the wiretap systems of several U.S. telecom and internet providers, likely in an effort to gather intelligence on Americans. The wiretap systems, as mandated under a…
VPNs are practically everywhere. In editorials, in advertorials, and featured by influencers on your favorite YouTube shows. There are ads for VPNs on websites, during television commercials, plastered on billboards, and on subway ads. There…
Sandvine, the makers of surveillance-ware that allowed authoritarian countries to censor the internet and spy on their citizens, announced that it is leaving dozens of “non-democratic” countries as part of a major overhaul of the…