Telegram, an encrypted messaging app has now been officially banned in Russia, due to claims that terrorists use the app to hide information and communication from the government. The Russian spy agency, the FSB, is now demanding that Telegram hand over encryption keys to remain operable within Russia. What is Telegram? Telegram is one of […]
Zello, a walky talky app that rose to fame by helping victims communicate in Hurricane Irma, is now under fire by the Russian government . The multi-platform app is basically a push to talk walkie talkie app that works over Wi-Fi and data networks to allow users to converse with no limits on users or […]
Hacking, censorship, and surveillance are spreading across the globe. In a lot of eastern countries, government made spywares are used to collect data on users not only criminal but also lawful. In some ways, the United States–or America, is made out to be some sort of vestige of free speech and freedom when it comes […]
The UK’s spy agency has finally been caught for not keeping a proper paper trail of when they collect data. As we’ve seen numerous times over the years governments have been slowly increasing their control of the internet more and more under false pretenses to “protect” the people all under supposed proper checks and balances. […]
Many people think that using 4G LTE instead of public Wi-Fi is a perfectly safe solution to stay safe browsing on the go. However, recently a group of American researchers have published a new research paper that show that 4G LTE protocols can be cracked to generate fake messages, users can be snooped on, and […]
It’s been a difficult number of years for Chinese citizens that want open and unblocked internet access. Starting around 2010 or so, the Chinese government began a crusade that would eventually block almost every form of modern website today–like Facebook, Google, Wikipedia, Twitter and more. The reason being is that the Chinese government wants total […]
Agora, a reputable human rights groups based in Russia has published new reports on the online crackdown taking place in the country. The latest report finds that in the last twelve months, Russia has seen more than 115,000 online censorship cases with a vast majority (110,000) of these websites being successfully blocked by the government. […]
Coming April 2018 in the UK, adult websites will be required by law to verify the ages of British visitors. This invasive verification could be in the form of a driving license, passport, or recognizable ID document that would have to be uploaded or scanned to the adult website in question. If an ID is […]
Here at TorGuard we’ve noticed a huge uptick in clients using VPNs for unblocking specific websites and streaming platforms. Governments, ISPs, and now corporations seem to be banding together to decide how we should use the internet. This means that geo-restrictions, IP restrictions, VPN bans, and other forms of internet control are increasing. We believe […]
While countries like Iran, Egypt, and Russia have seen some serious censorship problems with riots and heavy political unrest in the last year, nothing can compare to China. China has the strongest censorship regime in the world, blocking millions of active internet users from accessing popular websites like Facebook, Wikipedia, and thousands of other websites […]
Recently, two new security vulnerabilities, dubbed “Meltdown” and “Spectre” were revealed to the public. These vulnerabilities were found by researchers last June of 2017. The vulnerabilities were discovered by researches like Jann Horn, of Google’s Project Zero–as explained in his blog post. Since the discovery of the two vulnerabilities, researchers have been hard at work […]
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