In most cases, when a person surfs the Web, he simply enters the desired Web address into the browser address bar and presses Enter to connect directly to the computer hosting the desired page or ...

The best alternative to a VPN is a proxy site that can help you unblock and access Blocked or Restricted Websites. In this post, we have curated a list of some of the best free online web proxy sites ...

At the beginning of February of this year, Sony’s PlayStation Network faced a great outage. This affected users on a massive scale throughout the world. The incident occurred on a Friday evening and ...

Let's talk about proxy servers. Proxy servers are often confused with virtual private networks (VPNs) because their network architectures are very similar. But proxies and VPNs are very different ...

Three vulnerabilities have been found in the Sun Java Web Proxy Server. The flaws could be exploited in a denial-of-service attack against the affected machine. Sun has released Version 3.6 Service ...

Marshall Gunnell is a Tokyo-based tech journalist and editor with over a decade of experience covering IT, cybersecurity and data storage. Alongside CNET, his work has appeared in ZDNET, Business ...

Providing a common gateway for web services, caching web requests or providing anonymity are some of the ways organizations use proxy servers. Commercial proxy products, especially cloud offerings, ...

Security researchers have highlighted in recent months how the web proxy configuration in browsers and operating systems can be abused to steal sensitive user data. It seems that attackers are ...

Using Yahoo Messenger to chat with coworkers and customers can be an ideal way to communicate and to get a quick answer to a question. Yahoo Messenger installs with default Web proxy settings that ...

It’s funny how during the course of dealing with one incident, one often discovers other issues that also need to be addressed. A few weeks ago, my company was dealing with a Nimda virus infestation.