A blockbuster story at The Intercept Thursday revealed that a joint team of hackers from the National Security Agency and its British counterpart, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), broke into the systems of one of the world’s largest manufacturers of cell phone SIM cards in order to steal the encryption keys that secure wireless communications for hundreds of mobile carriers—including companies like AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint.
February 19, 2015There’s a lot going on with the Internet these days: FCC Commissioner Tom Wheeler has outlined his plan, the FCC will vote next week, the major ISPs have promised to fight the ruling in the courts, and the Republicans are trying to get their act together to limit the FCC’s power.
February 17, 2015China updated the Great Firewall and blocked our VyprVPN service. As part of this latest attack, China also blocked the Golden Frog website. We are pleased to inform customers that we have moved the Golden Frog marketing website to HTTPS to unblock our website for users in China.
January 29, 2015We are aware of recent network issues affecting our VyprVPN customers in China. If you are in China and are having trouble connecting to several different VPN server locations, including US and Australia servers, please use the following locations:
January 20, 2015Late last week, TorrentFreak reported that Netflix is cracking down on VPN users. They claimed Netflix was bowing to pressure from the movie studios and trying to curb instances of people around the world using a VPN to access Netflix content that is only available in the USA. Many journalists saw the TorrentFreak article and ran with the story.
January 7, 2015In 2009, after nearly a decade of visiting Washington DC to fight for legislation to protect the online privacy of United States citizens, our founders came to the realization that we weren’t going to get any help from the government. So, instead of getting mad (well, maybe a little frustrated) our founders decided to get even – and Golden Frog was born on December 18, 2009.
December 17, 2014We added a new VyprVPN server location in Seattle, Washington, USA! This is our 8th server location in the United States. You can connect to any VyprVPN server without restrictions on data transfer or server switching. We offer unlimited switching between server locations and have over 200,000 IP addresses so server connections are always available.
December 10, 2014U.S. Senator Ted Cruz’s description of net neutrality as “Obamacare for the Internet” has sharpened the partisan divide on a complicated issue and provoked a torrent of criticism from techies across the ideological spectrum.
November 13, 2014