VPN

Utah’s SB 73 took effect today, and the first US law to treat a VPN as an age-verification loophole is already pushing sites toward the bluntest fix available: refuse the connection. Surfshark’s head of legal, Gytis Malinauskas, put it plainly – ‘In practice, it requires sites that host content deemed harmful to minors to block […]

ExpressVPN, Proton, and CyberGhost are all named in fourteen new blocking orders Canal+ won days before the football season kicks off. Vice-President Irene Benac signed the batch on July 17, split between the 2026/2027 Champions League and Premier League campaigns. They target 73 domains, including ones trading on brands like Totalsportek, LiveTV, and Kevinsport, plus

Nearly half of America’s VPN users are running free apps, and 56% had no clue those apps often cover their costs by logging user activity and selling it. That’s the exact data they installed a VPN to hide. That comes from a new VPN survey of 1,000 U.S. adults. There were a lot of interesting

A VPN service that spent 12 years promising it kept no logs handed police a database naming over 500 of its users. That service is First VPN Service (1VPNS) and on July 13, 2026 the US Treasury sanctioned it for renting servers to ransomware gangs that hit American hospitals, businesses, and local governments. Every VPN sales

A single mistyped web address or a click on the wrong search result is now all it takes to hand your entire computer to a stranger. Security researchers just flagged a fake VPN installer that does exactly that, and it targets people who are only trying to protect their privacy in the first place. That

The UK government just floated the idea of cracking down on VPNs, and the timing tells you everything about why these moves almost never work the way governments hope. Days after Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the UK is raising the social media age limit from 13 to 16, Technology Secretary Liz Kendall hinted to

Russia’s communications regulator wants 92% of VPN traffic blocked inside its borders by 2030, and the funding is already locked in. The plan surfaced in a Roskomnadzor subsidy document spotted by independent Russian journalist Maria Kolomychenko. It sets a hard 2030 target for the “average effectiveness of restricting access to VPN circumvention tools by signatures”