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Last year, a former Apple contractor made waves by raising concerns about how the tech giant handled Siri voice assistant recordings, ultimately leading the tech giant to cease listening to them without your permission. Now the whistleblower is back, having sent a letter to European regulators asking them to investigate and potentially punish the company. …

CyberGhost occasionally slashes the price of its VPN service to as low as $2.75 a month, and that mega-deal is back if you pony up for a two-year subscription. The company is currently offering two years of its service for $66, which works out to that low monthly rate. You can ignore the countdown clock at the top of the …

The more you work from home, the more appealing a virtual private network’s added privacy and security becomes. But VPNs can be pricey, not to mention a bit unforgiving to novices who don’t know how to best configure them. If you’re looking to set up your first VPN, IPVanish is a smart choice because it’s both beginner-friendly and, for a …

Researchers say four virtual private network services had security flaws that could’ve exposed users to online attacks. In a statement Wednesday, industry research firm VPNpro said vulnerabilities in PrivateVPN and Betternet could’ve let hackers install malicious programs and ransomware in the form of a fake VPN software update. The researchers said they were also able to intercept communications when testing the …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Global demand for commercial virtual private networks is surging following work-from-home trends in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic. VPN providers and internet service providers are flexing major muscle to handle the increased overall internet traffic of quarantined populations around the world. Before …

Once upon a time, you needed a VPN (virtual private network) primarily for working on public Wi-Fi networks, like the ones at coffee shops and on airplanes. Now, with so many of us working from home, you may need a VPN in order to connect to your company network. Whatever your situation, here’s your chance to score a pretty sweet …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Roughly four out of five Americans are on government-mandated lockdowns, forcing many of them to work from home to avoid spreading the novel coronavirus. Many of these people use technology to access their work called virtual private networks, or VPNs. And now Microsoft …

Every office is now a home office. Maybe it’s the open-office version, taking up a corner of a dining table. Maybe it’s even a kind of upgrade, to the kind of private office virtually no one has anymore, just tucked away in a den or basement. But unless you’ve been a full-time work-from-home type since before the arrival of the …

Firefox users in the US will be able to read news on many websites with no ads for $5 a month — or just $2.50 a month in a promotion for the first six months — through a deal with startup Scroll. Mozilla announced the Scroll partnership Tuesday. It’ll be available through Mozilla’s Firefox test pilot program, which lets people …

It’s nearly complete. You’ve transformed a corner of your house into your new coronavirus-proof home office, you’ve selected the perfect ergonomic rolling chair and eyestrain-preventive lighting, and now you’ve decided to shore up the privacy of your home internet — effectively now your workplace internet — with a steadfast virtual private network.  Whether you’re searching for a VPN that will …