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An international law enforcement team has successfully arrested hundreds of criminals and seized their illegal assets. All thanks to an allegedly encrypted messaging app with data collection backdoors for the FBI.

That's where the name FBI honeypot comes from. But while effective in catching criminals, honeypots raise important privacy and security concerns.

After such a precedent is set, how can anyone be sure he isn't falling for a honey trap even without any criminal intentions?

A proxy server is an easy alternative to a VPN that can perform most of the functions of the latter. It’s a server that stands between your device and the destination server, taking your connection requests and forwarding them in your name.

Destination servers in almost all cases see the proxy server as the originator of the request. As such, proxies are widely used in various, mostly business-related applications whenever privacy, security, location changing, and several other factors are at play.

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Everyone has tried to secretly shop for a birthday gift online or look up some weird thing that shouldn’t remain on anyone’s browsing history. To do that without leaving a trail, you probably decided to go Incognito. If not, we’ll explain to you why you should.

Here you will learn how to open a new Incognito window on all major browsers. We’ll show you the exact steps to take, explain that Incognito mode really does, and give you some tips for better privacy.

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks disrupt access to networks or services. But a more harmful variant is pDoS, or Permanent Denial of Service. Unlike other DDoS attacks that flood the target with huge amounts of internet traffic, a pDoS attack can permanently damage hardware.

Understanding Permanent Denial of Service is crucial since these types of attacks target the hardware layer, not just software. In this blog post, you will learn how a pDoS attack works and how to prevent long-term damage and costly recovery.

When we carry our phones every day, they get exposed to multiple Wi-Fi connections and public networks. Such connection points are often a fertile ground for sneakers and cybercriminals, who aim to intercept your traffic. To protect yourself from such threats, you need a VPN on your iPhone. Find out what it is and how to get it.

Computers talk with each other in numbers and humans in words. That's a simplification, of course, but it gives us a good idea of what DNS servers do — translate words of domain names (cometvpn.com) into numbers of IP addresses (172.67.201.66).

A DNS server can be a privacy hazard as it has to be informed about every website you visit. A private DNS solves this problem by allowing you to use a DNS provider of your choice, possibly with encryption. We explain what private DNS is and how to set it up below.