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Tor Project Launches WebTunnel to Combat Internet Censorship

Tor Project has officially launched WebTunnel, a new type of bridges specifically designed to help circumvent censorship that targets the Tor network by obscuring connections to it. Tor bridges keep users’ connections to the network private. However, countries like China and Iran have found ways to detect and block these connections. WebTunnel takes a different […]

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Is texting safe? Here’s a story

In 2022, a British student booked a flight to Spain and shortly before the departure, he sent a joking message to his friends via Snapchat, saying, “I am a member of the Taliban and will blow up the plane.” Subsequently, as the plane took off, he and the passengers were surprised to see Spanish Air […]

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Signal tests new feature to enhance users’ privacy

In an important step towards enhancing the privacy of users of the application, Signal announced a new feature aimed at reducing the sharing of phone numbers between users, by registering a username for each account, where users can now register any names of their choice and share it instead of their phone numbers. The feature […]

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A new privacy feature from WhatsApp

Meta has released a new update to the WhatsApp application, which includes a new security and privacy feature that hides users’ IP address while making calls. An IP address is a unique address assigned to each device connected to the Internet. It is used to identify and distinguish devices in the network and route data […]

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Kaspersky reveals the hacking of its employees’ phones

Kaspersky has accused hackers working for an unnamed “government” of carrying out attacks on its employees’ iPhones, through a security vulnerability in the iMessage program, which is a zero-click vulnerability, and this type of vulnerability allows the attacker to carry out the attack and hack devices without any interaction. From the user, that is, without […]

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Google to delete inactive accounts

Google announced that it will permanently delete inactive personal accounts that have not been logged in for two years, including services such as Gmail, Drive, and Photos. According to Google’s blog, she said that the new policy in deleting inactive accounts comes for security reasons, as old accounts are 10 times less than active accounts […]

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WhatsApp released “Chat Lock” for privacy

WhatsApp has released the “Chat Lock” feature to keep messages private and confidential with an additional layer of protection. “Locking a chat takes that thread out of the inbox and puts it behind its own folder that can only be accessed with your device password or biometric, like a fingerprint. It also automatically hides the […]

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Twitter launches encrypted messages

Twitter has launched the feature of encrypting private messages, using end-to-end-encrypted encryption, through which only the sender and receiver can see the messages. Encrypted messages are only available to Twitter Blue users, and do not work by default. To activate it: Open the conversation Click on the information icon Initiate an encrypted message Currently, encrypted […]

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Chrome will change “Safe Website” icon

Google announced that it will replace the lock symbol next to the “safe” URLs in the Chrome browser, with a new symbol that does not indicate that “the site is safe or trustworthy.” Previously, the padlock symbol indicated that the website used HTTPS encryption to secure the connection between the user and the website, thus […]

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Microsoft releases “Final” update for Windows 10

Microsoft has released the final update to Windows 10 operating system which is 22H2,  that brings new features to the system, after it users get monthly security updates until October 2025 which date Microsoft will stop supporting the OS. Users are encouraged to update to the newer operating system, Windows 11, as long as their […]

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