Monthly Archives: May 2019

10 vulnerabilities as temptation targets for malicious actors

RapidVPN/ May 30, 2019/ Blog/

Mass hacking of Word Press sites is in progress through related post plugins also known as “yuzo-related- post” and “YelowPencil” plugin putting thousands of sites at risk. Also, in the last few weeks, flaws were discovered in other plugins. Here is the complete list: Related Posts (yuzo – related – post) YellowPencil Visual CSS Style Editor (waspthemes-yellow-pencil) Yuzo Related Posts

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Cyber-crime: Webstresser.org scandal

RapidVPN/ May 23, 2019/ Blog/

Ever since the beginning of the internet, the fear of teenage hackers prevailed. It seems that the damage that kids can do is far more dangerous and serious than one would dare to think of. In order to understand this fear, it’s enough for a person to remember the disasters that were caused by Webstresser.org, the infamous website launched by

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Everything you need to know about Airplane In-flight Wi-Fi

RapidVPN/ May 16, 2019/ Blog/

Internet access has become an indispensable part of our lives that it is almost unthinkable that we can not access it wherever we are. But what if we travel by plane and find ourselves at 30,000 feet? It can be quite frustrating when you need to switch your devices off on airplanes especially on long flights. The good news is

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The psychology behind passwords

RapidVPN/ May 9, 2019/ Blog/

Towards the end of every year experts usually make research in order to see the behavior of users of different devices. One of the most common and intriguing subjects for them is human behavior towards password creating and general use of passwords. It is proven through the years that peoples’ choices of passwords are usually highly hackable despite the years

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Internet Phishing: There’s always something phishy going on

RapidVPN/ May 3, 2019/ Blog/

You must have heard about the term “phishing” – an attempt by a malicious person or a group of individuals to deceive users to give out sensitive information such as passwords, usernames, credit card details, etc.  You may have heard many examples of such fraud that you thought you would never fall for one of those scams, but think again.

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