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MY TAKE: How consumer-grade VPNs are enabling individuals to do DIY security

The Last Watchdog

I’ve since discovered that there’s a heck of a lot going on in the B2C VPN space. The top B2C VPNs proved to be very clever and effective at differentiating themselves from one another and very successful at marketing their services. It’s going to be interesting to see where the consumer-grade VPN market goes from here.

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Q&A: Here’s why VPNs are likely to remain a valuable DIY security tool for consumers, SMBs

The Last Watchdog

It’s in findings of a deep dive data analytics study led by Surfshark , a supplier of VPN services aimed at the consumer and SMB markets. Much of the hard evidence came from correlating breached databases sitting in the open Internet. That’s for the B2C users. Now comes hard metrics quantifying the scope of this phenomenon.

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NEW TECH: Cequence Security launches platform to shield apps, APIs from malicious botnets

The Last Watchdog

The nonstop intensity of these attacks is vividly illustrated by the fact that malicious bot communications now account for one-third of total Internet traffic. This activity can be seen at any moment of any day by examining the volume of malicious botnet traffic moving across the Internet.

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McAfee Enterprise & FireEye 2022 Threat Predictions

McAfee

After all, it does demand a level of research to “hook” the target into interactions and establishing fake profiles are more work than simply finding an open relay somewhere on the internet. Shodan hadn’t had time to scan the full Internet). In summary: patched in the Spring, exploited in the Fall.