- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 21st, 2015
Skype, WhatsApp, Facebook Voice Calling and Other VoIP Services Blocked in Egypt
Government denies involvement, calls it a "rumor"
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 5th, 2015
Researcher Proposes a Method for Blocking Torrent Spies
Also releases a new BitTorrent client based on his findings
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 26th, 2015
British Government Is Recording All Internet Traffic, New Edward Snowden Files Reveal
Phone calls, browsing history, online radio, forum posts, adult websites, IM chats, and everything else
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 11th, 2015
Tor Gets Its Own TLD Special-Use Domain at .onion
.onion websites will be eligible for SSL certificates
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 9th, 2015
After Reddit and Wikipedia, Russia Now Bans PornHub
Roskomnadzor strikes again, this time it targets adult sites
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 8th, 2015
Norwegian Pirate Party Sets Up Free DNS to Avoid Pirate Bay Ban
Norway's Pirate Party responds to a ban on piracy-related sites imposed by a lawsuit from Hollywood movie studio
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 3rd, 2015
The Internet Doesn't Discriminate, Collects Huge Amounts of Data on Your Kids as Well
67% of children apps and websites collect data on kids
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 26th, 2015
Mobile Internet Goes Dark After Street Protests in India's Gujarat Region
Over 63 million users affected by recent Internet blockade
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 25th, 2015
Russia Temporarily Bans Wikipedia Because of Marijuana Page
One page about cannabis brings the ban hammer on Wikipedia
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 9th, 2015
Retweeting an ISIS Tweet Will Get You on the FBI's Watchlist
FBI intensifies ISIS monitoring activities on Twitter
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 3rd, 2015
India Bans Pornography Sites, 9Gag and Some Torrent Sites Also Thrown into the Mix UPDATE
857 adult websites are now banned in India
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 3rd, 2015
New WikiLeaks Documents Reveal the US Spied on Japan's Prime Minister
Japan's PM Shinzo Abe, Mitsubishi & Mitsui were top targets
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 31st, 2015
Tor Project Plans to Put Exit Nodes in Public Libraries to Avoid Legal Takedowns
Tor exit nodes in libraries are actually a very smart move
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 29th, 2015
White House Refuses to Pardon Edward Snowden, Regardless of Online Petition
White House: Snowden should return home and face trial
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 28th, 2015
NSA to Stop Accessing Phone Data on November 29, Will Delete Old Records
Phone metadata will be deleted as soon as litigations end
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 8th, 2015
Exposing Encrypted Communications to Law Enforcement Is a Double-Edged Sword
Legal and technical problems would expose encrypted data to more than government agencies, even would-be attackers
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 8th, 2015
US Senate Wants to Force Websites to Search for and Report Terrorists by Themselves
Twitter, Facebook, Google, and the rest, will have to search and report on terrorist activity on their sites