vpnMentor: Please tell us about your personal background and the companies you're involved in. Lets not start in the middle ages, we'll start when I got out of the military and founded a company which ended up being Terrogence in 2004. Terrogence took it upon itself to look for intelligence in the

Tell us a bit about yourself and your background before starting a vpn service. How did you get started as a VPN service? I've been an entrepreneur for over 15 years. Amongst projects that I have started there are numerous affiliate programs, file-hosting and peer-to-peer services service,

Please provide some background on the company: what inspired you to start a VPN service and how did it come together? We started our business in 2006. Back then, VPNs were used by private companies to protect their local networks. VPN services were not circulated yet, and there were no more than

Please describe your background as a company. what's inspired you to start a VPN service initially? Privacy is a fundamental human right, along with the right to freedom of information. Nowadays these rights are often violated and limited worldwide. We know many instances of blocking social

What kind of challenges need to be addressed in order for cryptocurrencies to be trusted and implemented as mainstream payment systems? Security is obviously the most significant challenge that the bitcoin community is facing. If we want cryptocurrency to become a mainstream payment system, we

What's made you focus on mobile security? In recent years, the intelligence gathering domain became very much focused on mobile devices. Mobile devices are considered to be the ultimate intelligence gathering tools, providing unlimited access to end user’s data and serving as an “intelligence tool

What measures are being taken in your company to prevent outsiders as well as employees from looking at your user's data? Our no logging policy is the most effective measure being taken to protect our users’ private data. No employee or outsider can access or review specific user activity; in

vpnMentor: You arrived to the event to present bitcoin. How much prominent is it in your research or is this just a hype that will not be included in your articles in 5 years? Until lately, my primary focus has been on research in theoretical cryptography. The goal of my investigation is to

Thyla van der Merwe received a BCom in Mathematics, Statistics and Economics, a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and an MSc in Mathematics from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She has a graduate MSc in Information Security at Royal Holloway, University of London as a FirstRand Laurie Dippenaar

What does your research mainly consist of today? Michael: From a performance perspective, the issues are piling up. Cloud computing, for example, presents a big challenge. The communication demands are growing at a very fast pace, and because the internet was designed in a very different era, we

vpnMentor's research team has discovered that Theta360 experienced a huge data breach. Hacktivists from our research team, Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, found the breach in Theta360's photo sharing system. The leak exposed at least 11 million public and private photographs.  The data breach

vpnMentor: In your presentation* you mentioned we still use a TLS protocol that was introduced in 1999. Doesn’t that mean that everything works very well and we can feel secure? *Attached at the end of this page are Dr. Jager's presentations in a conference at the Center for Research in Applied

“Although GDPR is much better than previous legislation, particularly with regard to enforcement, there's still some lack of clarity on issues like online tracking. Hopefully this will be dealt with over time. Obviously, it’s not ideal that companies are still stalking users as they surf the

vpnMentor’s research team has recently discovered that Marriott and other hotel brands managed by The Pyramid Hotel Group have experienced a cybersecurity data leak, revealing vulnerabilities that could be an important tool with significant impact in a massive future attack. Led by hacktivists

vpnMentor's research team recently discovered that Freedom Mobile experienced a huge data breach. Led by hacktivists Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor's researchers discovered a breach which exposes up to 1.5 million active Freedom Mobile users' personal data. Freedom Mobile (formerly Wind

Led by internet privacy researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor’s team recently discovered a huge data breach in flight booking website Option Way.  Based in France, with an international customer base, Option Way helps users find flight deals to and from destinations around the

vpnMentor’s research team discovered a hack affecting 80 million American households. Known hacktivists Noam Rotem and Ran Locar discovered an unprotected database impacting up to 65% of US households. Hosted by a Microsoft cloud server, the 24 GB database includes the number of people living

I founded SySS in 1998, so at the moment we are 20 years old. We specialize in penetration testing, meaning, we simulate cyber-attacks against our clients' IT systems, active directories, windows clients, IP ranges and web applications. We also provide pen-testing for cars, industrial systems, IoT

Founded in Panama in 2008,  offers easy-to-use, military-grade encryption to keep customers’ data safe and private.  With 553 servers in every continent save Antarctica, the company offers a host of cutting-edge features including: mobile apps for Apple and Android, a network kill switch, a DNS

Led by Noam Rotem, a well-known white hat hacker and activist, VPNMentor’s research team discovered a major security breach in Gearbest.  With hundreds of thousands of sales every day, Gearbest is a highly successful Chinese e-commerce company. The site sells a range of electronics and

Michael Walter is currently working on his post doctoral research at the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) in Austria. I caught up with him at the EuroCrypt 2018 conference in Tel Aviv, where he gave a talk titled – On the Bit Security of Cryptographic Primitives. Bit Security has