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Heinrich Long

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About Heinrich Long

Heinrich is an associate editor for RestorePrivacy and veteran expert in the digital privacy field. He was born in a small town in the Midwest (USA) before setting sail for offshore destinations. Although he long chafed at the global loss of online privacy, after Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013, Heinrich realized it was time to join the good fight for digital privacy rights. Heinrich enjoys traveling the world, while also keeping his location and digital tracks covered.

Heinrich

Heinrich is a writer at RestorePrivacy. He was born in a small town in the Midwest (USA) before setting sail for offshore destinations. Although he long chafed at the global loss of digital privacy, after Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013, Heinrich realized it was long past time to join the fight. Heinrich enjoys traveling the world, while also keeping his location secret and digital tracks covered.

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DuckDuckGo Launches VPN Product Bundled With ID Protections

DuckDuckGo Launches VPN Product Bundled With ID Protections

April 11, 2024 by Heinrich Long

DuckDuckGo has introduced Privacy Pro, a premium subscription service that combines a VPN service, a personal information removal tool, and an …

Google Adds Privacy-Minded Crowdsourced Tracking on 'Find My Device'

Google Adds Privacy-Minded Crowdsourced Tracking on ‘Find My Device’

April 8, 2024 by Heinrich Long

Google is rolling out a massive update for its Find My Device app, which adds Bluetooth-based crowdsourced tracking for Android devices and tags from …

Trojanized NordVPN Installer Pushed via Microsoft Bing Campaign

Trojanized NordVPN Installer Pushed via Microsoft Bing Campaign

April 5, 2024 by Heinrich Long

A malicious advertising campaign targets users searching for NordVPN on Microsoft Bing, infecting them with the SecTorRAT malware. Microsoft Bing is a …

Google Agrees to Delete Billions of Files Collected in Chrome Incognito

Google Agrees to Delete Billions of Files Collected in Chrome Incognito

April 2, 2024 by Heinrich Long

Google has agreed to wipe billions of records it collected from over 136 million Americans, users of its Chrome browser, as part of a settlement for a …

Hacker Claims Breach on Real Estate Data Analytics Firm Mashvisor

Hacker Claims Breach on Real Estate Data Analytics Firm Mashvisor

March 30, 2024 by Heinrich Long

Threat actor ‘IntelBroker’ has claimed yet another high-profile data breach, this time against Mashvisor, claiming to hold multiple user and agent …

Atlas VPN Announces Shutdown, All Users to Be Moved to NordVPN

Atlas VPN Announces Shutdown, All Users to Be Moved to NordVPN

March 27, 2024 by Heinrich Long

Atlas VPN has announced that it will be shutting down its services on April 24, 2024, due to rising costs and the challenges that arise from the …

Free VPN Apps on Google Play Turn Phones into Proxies

Free VPN Apps on Google Play Turn Phones into Proxies

March 26, 2024 by Heinrich Long

Several free Android VPN apps have been found to support a malicious residential proxy operation named ‘Proxylib.’ Proxylib infects …

Study Shows OpenVPN Traffic Can Be Easily Identified and Blocked

Study Shows OpenVPN Traffic Can Be Easily Identified and Blocked

March 22, 2024 by Heinrich Long

Internet connections using the OpenVPN protocol can be easily identified by using DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) technologies and blocked with minor …

Employer Review Site Glassdoor Deanonymized Users Without Consent

Employer Review Site Glassdoor Deanonymized Users Without Consent

March 21, 2024 by Heinrich Long

Glassdoor users have been reporting lately that the platform has introduced changes in its privacy policy, which include publishing people’s …

Massive Breach Exposed Data of 43 Million People in France

Massive Breach Exposed Data of 43 Million People in France

March 14, 2024 by Heinrich Long

France Travail, the country’s public employment service, has fallen victim to a cyberattack that resulted in a major data breach. France …

Tor Introduces New 'WebTunnel' Bridge to Help Bypass Censorship

Tor Introduces New ‘WebTunnel’ Bridge to Help Bypass Censorship

March 12, 2024 by Heinrich Long

The Tor Project has announced the release of a new bridge called ‘WebTunnel,’ designed to help users bypass censorship in highly …

Tuta Mail Adds Quantum Resistant Encryption via TutaCrypt

Tuta Mail Adds Quantum Resistant Encryption via TutaCrypt

March 11, 2024 by Heinrich Long

Tuta Mail, the German end-to-end encrypted email service, has introduced TutaCrypt, a new protocol aiming to give the platform resistance to quantum …

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