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Note: A new version of this article is now available on our website. You can check it here. The risk of online scams, data theft, security breaches, and bank accounts being hacked is increasing day by day. Online shopping, internet banking, and the social media craze, all have put your identity at risk and also made you vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Before you even know about it, someone may hack into your bank account, or make your files corrupt. It takes …

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The amount of blocked content on the internet is constantly on the rise. Government censorship and geographic restrictions often keep visitors away from social networks, popular streaming sites, and other types of websites. This type of blocking is also common in schools and offices, as network administrators prevent access to “time-wasting” sites like YouTube, Reddit, Netflix, and many others. So, what can be done to avoid these restrictions? Most people would think about using proxies or VPNs like Surfshark, but …

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The rapid growth of traffic, the need to support a growing number of users, the formation of high-performance data processing systems and virtualized environments for cloud services – all this has seriously changed the requirements for telecommunications networks. Increasingly, the traditional network is becoming a limiting factor in the development of computing infrastructure. VPN is widely used as a free technology that can solve information security problems. The main idea of VPN is the protection of all traffic that is …

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DDoS attacks, as well as the botnets that enable them to happen, are one of the Internet’s most powerful weapons. What’s more, anyone can buy a botnet and wreak havoc with just a few clicks. All they need to do it successfully is a few dozen dollars and some safety precautions. For instance, Mirai, one of the biggest and most (in)famous botnets ever, was the work of three college students trying to breach Minecraft servers. However, this 2016 attack ended …

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The use of technology is vastly dynamic especially the way things are done currently, including the work in all academic institutions where the instruction and learning process needs a great deal of advancement. For a number of years now, many institutions of learning have invested heavily in establishing fast, reliable, and fast internet services in their schools. The services provided by the internet have had a major impact in the educational context, even in organizations, and especially in teaching and …

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Modern Internet conditions dictate their safety rules, one of which is the necessity of anonymity on the Web. No matter what your reasons are, let’s just imagine you’d like to stay anonymous online. You go to Google, type something like «the basics of online anonymity», and get a number of results. Almost all sites will offer you to try several basic solutions, including VPN and Antidetect browsers. These two most popular tools share lots in common and confuse inexperienced users. …

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Currently offering more than a billion search results on Google, the term computer viruses is one of the founding blocks of anything IT-related that springs to mind. It is one of those household names permanently ingrained in general culture. The vast majority of people using a computer today have heard of computer viruses, in one way or another. Generations that will most likely recognize the term ‘computer virus’ will be the Millenials and Gen Z, because the period between the …

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