The U.S. Department of Justice has confirmed it has seized and dismantled the infrastructure of a Russian botnet used to hijack millions of devices worldwide for use as proxy servers. According to ...

A proxy server is an easy and secure way to protect your identity online. But is it better than a VPN? We explain how proxies work and whether you should be using one. I'm a senior analyst charged ...

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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 ...

A proxy server acts sort of like a middleman between your browser and servers that display Web pages. They do this by receiving page or link requests from your browser and then passing them to the Web ...

Did you miss the opportunity to browse the web when sites looked more like they belonged to hobbyists rather than billion-dollar companies? If so, a free proxy service called TheOldNet brings back the ...

The operators of at least one Tor proxy service was recently caught replacing Bitcoin addresses on ransomware ransom payment sites, diverting funds meant to pay for ransomware decrypters to the site's ...