What is VPN and How does it Works

29
December
2013

more and more Internet users are online shoppers, especially during the holiday season. This is a great opportunity for cybercriminals who are always looking for ways for users to fraudulent Internet and smartphone users. Here are some tricks used by hackers.

Pause No Christmas for cybercriminals! Indeed, they specifically use this time to increase the pitfalls that users can drop by donning the colors of the holiday season. All kinds of phishing scams are blooming during this season. Indeed, attention to these emails referring to the fake e-commerce site users where users buy their gifts and provide their bank details and other personal data. Cybercriminals may also be behind the fraudulent delivery or use the Christmas spirit to convince users to give money to an association ... whose site will of course be scammed.

The danger can also come from classifieds sites, which are much visited before Christmas. "Beware of ads asking for too much personal information or ask a Western Union payment, for example," warns the Research Centre and the consumer. Do not be fooled by these websites offering Air iPad or Galaxy S4 US $ 50 ... This is always too good to be true.

the McAfee antivirus software company also warned smartphone users, who have become the new target for crooks. seasonal false applications or programs connected circulate via SMS. "If mobile users, click the download link, it can provide access to their smartphone and allow you to make calls to premium rate numbers," warns McAfee.

So be sure to download apps only official stores. The editor also warns users that fake e-cards can install a Trojan or a virus on the user's computer that clicks too quickly on the attachment ... "Better check that is sender "as McAfee recommends doing so. This should also be the case when downloading games.

during the holiday season and throughout the year, beware of messages and special offers ...

Protect your computer or mobile, choosing a VPN service: the VPN encrypts your Internet connections and keep private the sites you visit and the information you provide on these sites . any information you send will go directly into your secure virtual tunnel. with the service VPN, you can easily direct your traffic from one of 20 countries available. your computer and your mobile or tablet to connect to the Internet from one of 20 available countries and no one can intercept your online business. Change your IP simply by service VPN is one of the most important steps to surf the Internet safely and anonymously.

19
Jan
2014

the Office of the Commissioner of privacy confirmed that Google search for a given medical device to place a user to be "followed" by the health-related ads on independent websites.

Canada regretted that the so-called "behavioral" ads based on the history of web browsing. While they are not illegal, a law on the protection of personal information in the private sector in Canada does not allow consumers to be targeted based on "monitoring of sensitive data", including aspects of health .

If Google's policy on privacy prohibits advertisements based on race, religion, sexual orientation or health, the US giant acknowledged that some advertisers who use its advertising service does comply with this policy.

in response to the Commissioner's inquiry, representatives of Google, they say committed to provide more information to advertisers to increase its efforts to monitor tracking marketing campaigns but also to provide more training to staff and improve its automated review.

The California-based company said it would implement these measures by June

According door Floor-Google Canada, the company said it had worked closely with the Office of the Commissioner and is pleased that this issue can be resolved.

Mme. Bernier also expressed his satisfaction to see Google do to solve this problem, also stating that most Canadians believe that health information are "extremely sensitive".

Be careful about the information you give on the web. Using a VPN to encrypt all communication and data transfer over the Internet. Thus, the Web giant will not analyze your browsing information and can not offer you ads based on your personal data. In addition, targeted advertising also uses geolocation to increase efficiency. With a VPN, you can easily change your IP address by selecting a host country between several servers worldwide. The VPN allows you to hide both your personal and your country. Your connection is made anonymous and reliable, and you can surf freely, away from prying eyes.

8
Feb
2014

Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Apple ... want to regain the trust of their users and have recently published the number of applications filed by the NSA, a first since the Edward Snowden revelations.
This comes after US authorities a week earlier, as expected President Obama, have allowed these companies to disclose more information about the surveillance of their users by US intelligence.
Yahoo! is the company being the most affected by such inquiries on suspects or users about illegal content. Yahoo said that about 30,000 user accounts were targeted by these court injunctions. The relevant data are keywords primarily e suspects -mails but also photos and contacts. The company said that the claims of the FISA cover only 0.01% of its subscribers.

Microsoft has meanwhile received 15 000 applications for its users, Google around 000 and 00. Facebook Nothing was said about the percentage of positive response to queries.
However, all these claims were legal because they were made under warrants issued by the court in charge of overseeing intelligence operations (FISA).

"the publication of this information is a first step in the right direction and confirms the principles of reform that we called our vows last December", said the Google legal officer. Google representatives mention the fact "believe in the need for greater transparency so that everyone can better understand the mechanisms of monitoring laws and judges to serve national interests."

Apple said before receiving requests under 249 users in the first part of 2013, and it dealt with the address books and not the content of the devices.

the publication of these figures was authorized by the Ministry of Justice, provided that companies comply by publishing figures of six months after the application of FISA. However past arrangement prevents large companies to publish details of these applications. These groups are committed to regularly publish the information, but in exchange, they had withdrawn the complaint filed with these control monitoring programs of the secret court (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court).

"As mentioned above, we believe that governments have a responsibility to protect the people and they can do it while being transparent" wrote legal officer of Facebook Colin stretch on his blog.

The best way to ensure that your personal data is not followed is to use a VPN service. The VPN reduces your online movements by replacing your routing information through an anonymous IP address, thus avoiding geolocation, either on your computer or mobile device. Secure DNS servers VPN keep secret requests that you make, so that nobody can see your browsing history. In addition, your Internet connection is encrypted with a very strong system that protects you against hackers and illegal ears trying to listen and obtain sensitive information about you. Your Internet connection is hidden behind many servers VPN :. When connected to the VPN, no one can access your computer or mobile device without using VPN protected servers

28
Feb
2014

American people held February 11 protest day to show their opposition to the pernicious and permanent monitoring put in place by their government and the NSA: it is called the day we Fight Back. This action was initially launched by the group Demand Progress fighting against Internet censorship. It also collected many other organizations, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

In announcing this action last January, these organizations have asked citizens to contact their elected officials to complain about the draconian policies of the government. This led to over 71,000 telephone calls to members of Congress and 140,000 emails or tweets sent to them

Showing their opposition to the widespread surveillance of communications of American citizens -. And even much of the rest of the planet, they hope to show their commitment to the legislation Freedom Act US, slowing somewhat the strengths of the NSA.

Indeed, many US Internet giants, including the installation and management of networks, remained rather silent on this issue. But others said they save these protests. Microsoft, Google, AOL, Yahoo, Twitter and Apple have expressed their wish that the US government will control his anger on the Net.

Other demonstrations were also held in major US cities and 15 countries worldwide. However, core protests were mostly on the Internet according to the EFF: the United States, 250,000 Americans contacted their representatives in Congress during the day for them to share their opposition to the generalized monitoring policy imposed by the US government to its citizens. In addition, more than 6,000 websites have expressed their support or displayed a banner "The Day We Fight Back" on their homepage.

The best way to ensure that your personal data is not followed is to use a VPN service. The VPN reduces your online movements by replacing your routing information through an anonymous IP address, thus avoiding geolocation, either on your computer or mobile device. Secure DNS servers VPN keep secret requests that you make, so that nobody can see your browsing history. In addition, your Internet connection is encrypted with a very strong system that protects you against hackers and illegal ears trying to listen and obtain sensitive information about you. Your Internet connection is hidden behind many servers VPN :. When connected to the VPN, no one can access your computer or mobile device without using VPN protected servers

20
Mar
2014

In old EU countries Soviet, many young IT experts who are barely living room approached by criminal networks.

They proposed to enter a poorly protected computer network or steal € 300 million in subcontractor networks of banks, which are loose in Bangladesh or India.

"It is scary, but perhaps less than some hackers can actually do, says criminologist Xavier Raufer, for example, they take control of the host computer of a nuclear plant on the basis of a country where the computer system is not secure, while being based at home. "

and many of these pirates already prevalent in Western countries, acting to the detriment of companies but also individuals .

Those who are called "cryptolockers" now represents the new trend in the world of cybercriminals. They could soon wreak havoc worldwide

Indeed, they are usually based in Russia and Ukraine .. These computer nerds develop stubborn virus that encrypt and paralyze remote documents and files personal order to make them inaccessible to users

therefore, they must pay a ransom to unlock their computer and recover their data. "The money is also often necessary Bitcoin, this easily traceable electronic cash, mostly used on drug sales site," said Col. Eric Freyssinet, Head of the Division of fight against the French gendarmerie cybercrime. In Typically, the ransom is 2 to 8 Bitcoins, whose individual value is about 680 euros.

After using it essentially took the companies with servers on the Internet, "cryptolockers" now attacking personal computers. the virus can spread through infected USB keys corrupt, links and advertisements, has already hit the UK and the US. 1300 attacks have been identified in both countries in France, this virus is the sixth most affected countries in the world.

to avoid censorship on the Internet, use a VPN service that lets you choose your country connection. Wherever you live, you can choose to set your connection in one of the 114 countries where access is not restricted. You can then access the sites of your choice with complete anonymity, without incurring censure or reprisals heavy censorship. You'll also be able to access your P2P sites and favorite streaming. You bypass geographical restrictions and view the sites that are blocked by specific countries. You can download all the content you want and surf without restrictions.

7
Apr
2014

A new bill could soon give full powers to the Supreme Council of Audiviovisuel (CSA) which could then monitor all media, including the Internet.

draft mentions that the CSA could manage "the provision of audiovisual works, both film type audio or artworks, whatever the technical details of distribution." This means that the Council could take over all media broadcast audiovisual content, namely websites, smartphone, podcast, gaming consoles, etc ...

regarding its watchdog role, CSA may refer all cases concerning the protection of minors and human dignity and racism, and monitor at the same time with many parental control bias. So what became Hadopi institution? In December 2013, the CSA had denounced a massive piracy and suggested that its role should be to take over.

unnecessary Presumption of the user side, but also by other departments, Hadopi seems to be in poor condition.

new Prime Minister Manuel Valls had publicly stated that he is against the bill in 08. "I have never wavered on the repeal of the law that induced suppression when the financial penalty and administrative, "he said at that time.

The best way to ensure that your personal data is not followed is to use a VPN service. The VPN reduces your movements online replacing your routing information through an anonymous IP address, thus avoiding geolocation, either on your computer or mobile device.

the secure VPN DNS servers keep secret requests you make so that no one - including your ISP - can see your browsing history Furthermore, your Internet connection is encrypted with a very strong system that protects you against hackers and illegal ears trying to listen and gain. sensitive information about you. Your Internet connection is hidden behind many servers VPN :. When connected to the VPN, no one can access your computer or mobile device without using VPN protected servers

23
Apr
2014

Do you like cookies? These lines of code - for example MC2 :. UID = f089dc9d92e5cdadf3 7daa554691bd4 - displayed in your browser by Web sites you visit that enable advertisers to send you targeted advertisements

managed by expert companies filing the data, classify, analyze and consolidate before selling them: they get your identity, you follow from site to site, remember your passwords, help you manage your online purchases ...

Because the goal is clear: you "profile" thus generating custom files are stored in databases. This is supposed to get to know you better to present the advertising message at the right time and in the right format. You can delete cookies, but new will arrive as soon as you go surfing again on the net. And if you block them, most sites do not work. Some cookies can last a very long time: those designed by Amazon today are designed to last until 2037.

To refine the targeting, advertising cookies are compared with other data collected on the Internet: your address IP (Internet Protocol that identifies and locates your computer), your preferred language, your search engine, the type of computer and browser you use ... If you have posted in some personal data - making a purchase or fill a questionnaire - they will also be used. Internet data can also be compared to real world data such as your credit card statements, the purchase of tickets, the location data from your phone ...

Such narrow targeting may also involve changing the price of a product according to the profile. When a travel site shows you just see a price comparison, it lowers its prices to match those of its competitors, still catching up on "fresh". If you connect a computer to € 300, the site will display more than if you use a laptop to € 300 hotel rooms. Consumer choice, apparently ten times the power of the computer is seems diminished. Digital man agreed to be dominated by machines for the sole purpose of having time to less tiring purchase ...

So we let technology shapes us, but we have not yet created the intellectual tools to help us understand what is happening. for us

This targeted advertising market continues to evolve: the new mode is predictive analysis: instead of reacting to the behavior of users, advertisers want to advance the information sought. To do this, use the machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence. This is to develop the ability for computers to optimize their performance without the intervention of man. For example, the program detects an Internet dense less tragic than usual at the end of the day in a big city, infers congestion that keeps people returning home to surf the web and thus adapts the broadcast advertisements.

predictive analytics is growing and new businesses are created to facilitate the migration of these new skills to traditional industries. In France, Dataiku company has developed a software suite that will allow sharp without computer training workers to manage databases and predictive analytics "Our potential customers Douetteau said Florian, head of Dataiku are industrial companies that do nothing with their stored data, and you want to use to solve problems in innovative ways. "

In response, Melanie Swan, a creative owner Californian start-up company found that many users begin to have self-defense strategies," They publish their data on multiple sites - with their photos a service, their e-mails with the other, their requests in a third system - hoping that none of these companies can establish their complete profile They feel that something is wrong, but remain powerless that.. could change. "

The best way to ensure that your personal data is not followed is to use a VPN service. The VPN reduces your online movements by replacing your routing information through an anonymous IP address, thus avoiding geolocation, either on your computer or mobile device. Secure DNS servers VPN keep secret requests that you make, so that nobody can see your browsing history. In addition, your Internet connection is encrypted with a very strong system that protects you against hackers and illegal ears trying to listen and obtain sensitive information about you. Your Internet connection is hidden behind many servers VPN :. When connected to the VPN, no one can access your computer or mobile device without using VPN protected servers