VPN server in Belgium added!

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VPN server in Belgium added! VPN servers PLUS We added this month! We added a VPN server in Belgium and multiple VPN servers in the United States, including Seattle and Atlanta.

We hide my ass! always love to hear from you, thank you for all your suggestions server! If a city or country you would like to see added VPN server, let us know by commentating here on our blog or you can email us!

Since our last update, we have added another 13 servers and 1,644 IP addresses to Hide My Ass! VPN.

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Here are the details:

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  • USA, Arizona, Phoenix VPN (Location 2 Servers 5-6) (256 IP)
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HMA! now has servers in each state of the United States. See our list of USA VPN servers and let us know what you think of them!

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ISP to spy Pakistani netizens

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ISPs to spy on Pakistani internet users Internet freedom in Pakistan is threatened by a new bill, the prevention of Pakistan Electronic Crimes of 2015, require ISPs to spy on their clients. The bill was recently passed by the National Assembly and will now be debated in Parliament before becoming law.

The new law would also suppress the human rights of Pakistanis to freedom of speech and expression, plunging Pakistan deeper into areas of state censorship, matching the obvious existing oppression in many countries, including China, North Korea and Russia, which recently banned memes ridiculing public figures - especially those of President Vladimir Putin. The new law replaces the order of the Pakistan Electronic Crimes in November 09 that at the time, was not a priority for the government.

Pakistan, which already Internet censors by strict blasphemy application, anti-pornography and anti-government rules the country has not yet confirmed who will oversee the new law, and how it will be implemented.

preventing Pakistan Electronic Crimes Act 2015 bill provides new regulations will not only criminalize users for the actions of every day that many take for granted, but instead also all users Internet Pakistan digital mass surveillance:

  • There will be a criminal offense to possess and manage online accounts on social media platforms on behalf of another person
  • online users face prison sentences of up to three years and a huge fine ($ 9.800) for sharing false information that "may harm or intimidate the reputation or privacy of [person] "
  • under the prevention of Pakistan Act on electronic crimes Bill 2015, ISPs will be forced to spy on their customers and keep all metadata from the user for a year

Pakistan is certainly no stranger to censorship. In September 2012 Pakistan banned YouTube after the social media channel failed to remove the trailer "Innocence of Muslims", which caused violent protests in Pakistan and the Islamic world. While the YouTube ban was supposed to be temporary, the block remains on Youtube three years.

threaten users with imprisonment and fines of up to $ 9,800 (the average annual wage in Pakistan is about $ 3060 PPP) is a strategic move for manipulative control users to comply this draconian law.

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What do you think of preventing Pakistan Electronic Crimes Bill 2015? Do you think it's fair to force ISPs to spy on their customers?

Expats - What do you miss about home

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Expats - What do you miss about home? As promised, here is the second part of our series of expatriates - "Expats - Qu'est- what you miss about home? "If you missed the first part see my previous blog for expats to some of the best ways to adjust to a new country .

What I miss most from home

of course, living the life of an expatriate I miss my family and friends, but fortunately with Skype, Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber, etc., we can keep in touch, and they do not feel so far away. in fact, I think I keep in touch more living abroad when I was living in the UK. When I lived in London, he could take two hours to travel to meet a friend who lived 10 miles through the London arm to dig its roads and subway strikes and a multitude of service interruptions.

Each expat I know missing a number of food products from their country of origin - usually food or snacks they grew up with. For example, in the UK, many expats miss Marmite, and many US expatriates lack of Kraft macaroni cheese. I'm a little hungry myself, and really misses cheddar cheese mature further, I sorely lacking in salt and vinegar chips, cry at the thought of no longer Branston pickle, Bisto gravy, or fish and chips - notes I do not mix these together to make a horrible flat "British" :) every time I visit the UK, I stock up on these items, they are "my precious".

When I was an expatriate in Lebanon I missed being able to watch British television. Alas, in those days, the VPN does not exist for the individual user, and if it did, my internet connection has been powered by a potato (ok, it was not) but was so incredibly slow that it took minutes for a single web page to load, so streaming shows online is not an option.

The main difficulties of being an expatriate

The greatest difficulty that I found to be an expat, is not able to speak the local language. This can cause many problems for expatriates, and if you make a visa application, it can be a bit of a nightmare. Complete forms is also a bit of a chore, because it seems that no one really has the definitive answer on what is "correct", which can lead you a merry dance. It can be a bit of a battle, but you get there in the end! In Serbia, you must register with the police within 24 hours upon arrival that does not sound so bad, but when you stay with Serb family do not own their apartment or their owner is out of the country, creative thinking It comes in is fine if you are staying in a hotel or hostel, as they register with the police upon arrival

Expats. -.! Let us know what you miss about home

If you are an expat, you miss your country - friends, family, food, improving public transport? We'd love to hear, so do please free to comment here on our blog!

How to reinstall HMA! Pro VPN on Mac OS X

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If you need to know how to reinstall HMA! Pro VPN on Mac OS X - you are at right place! In this tutorial we show you how to reinstall HMA! Pro VPN on Mac OS X - correctly. Reinstalling our software will not be long - so you can enjoy using HMA! Pro VPN in no time.

How to reinstall HMA! Pro VPN on Mac OS X

For applications that do not have an uninstaller, as HMA! Pro VPN, go to the " Finder " sidebar, click " Applications ", then drag and drop the application from the Applications folder in "Trash". You will find "Trash" at the end of the dock. Next, choose Finder> "Empty Trash."

Once you have removed our software, you are ready to reinstall it. VPN access your Control Panel and log in using your HMA! Username and password.

Now that you are connected to your HMA! Pro VPN account, click " Software & Support ", and select the version of Mac OS X to download.

When HMA! Pro VPN has downloaded, please go to your "Downloads" as shown in the screenshot below.

You are now ready to install the new version of HMA! VPN Pro for Mac OS X by following these steps:

Click "Continue"

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  • Click "Continue"
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  • Click "Install"
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  • Type your name and password, then click "Install software" as shown below:
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  • Click "Close"
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And that's it! You have now installed with HMA success! Pro VPN on Mac OS X.

See HMA! Pro VPN Help Center for more tutorials and tips!

Want to learn more about VPN? Ask our support asses!

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We at HMA! Pro VPN recruited several support staff in Belgrade, Serbia to provide you, our loyal customers with the best Hide My Ass! support possible customer.

We would like to introduce more supportive donkeys who have recently joined us. One of the new members to join us here to Hide My Ass! is Marija, who joined us in April earlier this year

Marija

"I like working with people. - And it's never boring here because we all have very different personalities (all fun though!), And have something interesting to say and share. My working day is usually very dynamic.

Before this work I am most of the time studying, traveling and trying to learn as many languages ​​as possible. My area of ​​expertise is the language of Molière - I spent four years studying French literature - from its beginnings to modern times. Needless to say - fun times

I also came to learn Swedish meanwhile !. I spent two very cold winters in Stockholm, Sweden and is still one of my favorite places on Earth.

My interests include fashion, design in general, history, pop culture, music, and dogs. I most beautiful Rottweiler (Rino) in the world and you might catch me looking at pictures of cute and funny dogs during my free time. "

Have a question for Marija? Do not hesitate to ask commenting here on our blog!

Farcing - a new social media identity theft scam

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If you use Facebook, Twitter or one of many other social media platforms you might be a new victim of identity theft threat known as "farcing."

Cyber ​​criminals use farcing as a way to access the personal information of users of social media in order to steal their identity. Farcing is one of many threats out there, and " Phishing ", " SMiShing " - a scam that uses phone text messages to attract customers who unknowingly download a virus or malware on their mobile device and " Vishing ." - a telephone scam in which thieves coax users to submit their personal information

Farcing - new online scam to steal users' identities social media

So what farcing? In short, an attacker will create a social media false statement in order to make you accept a friend request. Once you are friends, all information will be available to the wrong account holder. Once they have this information, find out where you live, where you work, your birthday and all sorts of other related information is just a mouse click. From there it is relatively simple to begin to guess passwords for your online accounts, based on the name of a pet that you have tagged in a photo, a favorite place that you mentioned, or last names. The attacker can then use your email account to send spam, submit false advertisements for sunglasses over your social media accounts in your name, or perhaps more serious, sign your purchases and online bank accounts, or even steal your identity!

farcing a recent study was published by Arun Vishwanath an associate professor at the University of Buffalo , who said "these scams are on the rise and continue to increase with the popularity of social media, the exponential increase in the number of victims worldwide farcing ".

Vishwanath performed an experiment of his own by creating fake profiles 4 different Facebook each different to the other. Of the 150 users of Facebook he sent friend requests to one in five agreed, while 13% provided Vishwanath with more information about themselves.

Remember, the cyber criminal is farcing calculation, more devious and more intelligent than your average scammer as they target users who claim to be either a friend or a friend of a friend, or stating that you have one or more friends in common. We are more likely to accept a friend request from someone we have mutual friends in common with, and that is exactly what cybercriminals are counting on, literally.

So the next time you receive a friend request Facebook, ask yourself if you really know them? Even if you have friends in common, they are authentic? How do you know that? Remember that cyber criminals are cunning folk, they have set up profiles to look authentic, using false images of a person looking 'normal' in order not to arouse suspicion. Once you accept their friend request - that "friend" could start mining your personal information in order to steal your identity. And once they have your friendship, they can also see your friends list (if you have this open setting), and they can also see the comments of your friends on your wall and send a friend request .

cyber criminals are honing in on our weaknesses of social media, targeting our Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media accounts and if you let your Facebook privacy settings open to the public - then they can learn even more!

Do not be a victim of farcing - follow these tips to protect your identity on social media

With billions of us actively and frequently use social media, we are incredibly easy for cyber criminals to zero on us and steal our identity. Fortunately, there are ways we can reduce our presence in online social media, which makes it harder for cyber criminals to steal our identity.

  • The more personal information you share, the more chance you might be a victim of farcing - do not make it easy for cyber criminals! Only share your personal information on social media with people you know - see Facebook privacy watcher who will help you know exactly who can see your posts
  • There are many of us who have hundreds or even thousands of Facebook friends - accept anyone who sends us a friend request. If you do not know personally, do not accept their friend request
  • Keep your personal information. Limit the amount of personal information like your date of birth and email address
  • Use another password for each of your online accounts - which also includes your online bank account

I think most of us were trigger 'friend request' happy and accepted the people we really do not know - it's time to do a purge of social media and rid your account all the "unknown"?

VPN connection problems? Try these solutions

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If you have VPN connection problems, do not worry help is at hand with this handy checklist .

How to solve your VPN connection problems

1. Connecting to different VPN servers in various locations

This makes sense when, for example, misdirected or geo-specific problems with your ISP are causing connection problems. If you can not connect to a VPN server in a specific country - try another server

This will also tell you if your VPN connection problems are restricted. to a server / region or the issue is connected to your system, thus preventing you from connecting at all.

  1. 2. Try all VPN protocols available

Try all VPN protocols - PPTP and OpenVPN with our software, L2TP with our dialer or manual UDP with our customers alternative (s).

for instructions on how to connect using those on different operating systems protocols, please visit our knowledge base.

  1. 3. Check the possible causes with 3rd party security applications of

We found that the majority of VPN connection problems are caused by firewall, antivirus or other third party security applications running in the background. The best way to determine if an application could be responsible for your VPN connection problems is to disable / close temporarily, and test again to see if the problem persists.

  1. 4. Uninstall HMA! Pro VPN

Uninstall the HMA! Pro VPN software (Windows, reinstall the .NET Framework) restart, reinstall and then restart both. Then try to connect.

  1. 5. Change your DNS settings

Change your DNS settings manually or OpenDNS GoogleDNS. You can find instructions on how to change the DNS settings of your operating system below:

  • Linux
  • Mac
  • Android
  • Windows
  • iOS

6. Install all available updates on Microsoft Windows update.

        1. 7. Install the latest drivers for your hardware, especially for ethernet adapters

8. Install the latest firmware for your router. Also look for the new experimental firmware.

If you experience frequent disconnections, please see our article on disconnections.

If you have VPN connection problems using Pro VPN router , please visit HMA! Help Center to get step by step instructions.

If you are still having VPN connection problems, you can write us , contact us via Live Chat or register a thread in the HMA! forum - we have many good members will be happy to help. Please remember to include as much information as you can about your question so we can help you as quickly as possible.

Why the plans of building "Great Firewall Thailand" (ไฟร์วอลล์ ที่ ดี ของ ประเทศไทย) is a bad idea

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Why the plans of building "Great Firewall Thailand" (ไฟร์วอลล์ ที่ ดี ของ ประเทศไทย) is a bad idea -

The Thai government is obviously very impressed by the ability of China to block websites, spying on its users and to control the flow of information in and out of the country, they are planning to build "Great Firewall of Thailand."

the "land of smiles" is no stranger to Internet censorship, even before the state websites military coup Or 06 were blocked - mainly government sites pornographic and anti, and after 2014 coup increased online monitoring imposed by the military junta in Thailand tight down on all those who have expressed political criticism against the military or committed treason .

Great Firewall of Thailand is no surprise, earlier in March this year Asia Sentinel reported that the government sought to increase surveillance and eliminate dissidents as well as put together measures to modernize the country's infrastructure.

Great Firewall of planes from Thailand were brought to light thanks to a Twitter user who discovered the looking through the official office of the resolutions with statement ordering the Ministry of information, communications and technology to "establish a single gateway to use it as a tool to control inappropriate websites and information flows from other countries via the Internet. "

Thailand currently operates nine Internet gateways, but if the Great Firewall plans of Thailand are implemented gateway single Internet pave the way for an increase in censorship, limit the amount of websites and services Thais can access, and also decrease the speed of the Internet.

what a single Internet gateway?

Think of a single Internet gateway as a "black box" that each Internet user in Thailand goes through to access services and websites that are . not hosted in Thailand the Thai government should monitor this single gateway limiting the content and giving them the opportunity to see which position it -. especially useful during periods of political unrest the Thai government could try to strip out as encryption of traffic as possible to further restrict the freedom of the Internet.

the Bangkok Post reported that communications technology (ICT) and Information Minister Uttama Savanayana said that the reason for great firewall of Thailand "is to reduce the business costs of Internet service providers' and he denied that a single Internet gateway was designed to censor the Internet. A number of news reports, Uttama Savanayana said if Great Firewall of Thailand has been implemented, it would not ignore personal information or their right to access user information. And pigs can fly!

Great Firewall of Thailand will not only obstacle on each and the right of each Internet user to access a free and open internet, companies could suffer too. A single Internet gateway would result in slower Internet speed and the entire IT infrastructure of the country would be more vulnerable if it failed.

If Great Firewall of Thailand is implemented, it will probably scare the big companies that are considering locating in the country and could also lead to a mass exodus of companies already established there. Why a company would put their confidence or their data in a government that controls, monitors and censors the Internet?

Only the Thai government and the junta could benefit from this draconian initiative.

a petition "Go against Thai gov to use a single Internet gateway" on Change.org was launched after plans were revealed and received more 146,000 signatures at the time of writing.

According to press reports, no timetable has been set for a single Internet gateway

for the moment, the Thai people are able to use Facebook, Twitter, YouTube -. they can enjoy a relatively open Internet, but if the plans for Great Firewall of Thailand are approved this could be a distant memory!

millions of users around the world who are not able to access their favorite sites and services use VPN to get around government blocks on Web sites. For more information on how a VPN works or us email!

If you live in Thailand how do you feel about the plans to build the country's Great Firewall of Thailand?

หาก คุณ อาศัย อยู่ ใน ประเทศไทย คุณ รู้สึก อย่างไร เกี่ยว กับ แผนการ ของ ประเทศ ใน การ สร้าง ไฟร์วอลล์ ที่ ดี ของ ประเทศไทย?

A Facebook or Twitter censored messages? Report it to onlinecensorship.org

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Have you ever been a victim of censorship of social media, you posted a picture on Instagram breastfeed your child for Instagram censorship watchdogs to consider in breach of their conditions and take down, or worse, suspend your account? Well, now you can file reports of censorship of social media with the help of Onlinecensorship.org.

Onlinecensorship.org launched a new project that allows users to report when their social media messages, images or videos were taken down, or their account has been suspended or terminated.

Onlinecensorship.org project is a non-profit co-founded by Ramzi Jaber Visualizing impact and Jillian C. York of Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The project objective is to know why companies remove content, how the removal of this information affects the lives of users and keep "Internet companies with a public obligation to how they exercise power over the digital lives of people . "

When we think of Internet censorship, countries like China, Iran and North Korea come to mind - countries are infamous for social media sites blocking . - deny their citizens express their opinions online, however, we rarely think how and why social media platforms decide what is, and what is . not acceptable public speech

Talk to CBC News Jillian York of the EFF said: "Basically these areas are where our daily interactions take place, and these companies now have much control over our speech as the state or the church in the past. "

more and more people use and rely on social media platforms to express their opinions, discuss current affairs, participate in discussions, and share videos and snapshots of their lives with the family, friends and the outside world, it is crucial for the social media sites are transparent in what is or is not acceptable public speech.

are social media sites free and open forums, we are led to believe, or do they play the dubious role of Big Brother controlling and censoring what we can and can not say on social media platforms?

most social media sites are privately owned and have their own sets of rules to decide what is and what is unacceptable, and in some cases censor content users.

The Onlinecensorship.org project wants users of the six most popular social media sites Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Instagram and Google to file a report if their content censured or removed by technology giants. According to the reports submitted, Onlinecensorship.org will be able to learn and understand more about how social media companies to enforce their terms of service.

If your business image, video or status was censored Onlinecensorship.org and follow their submission process. If, for example, you want to file a report against Twitter, simply answer the following questions :?

What has been censured by Twitter

  • My account was suspended
  • My Tweet was deleted
  • My video was deleted
  • My photo was deleted
  • One ad I posted / wanted post was deleted / refused

If you wish, you can remain anonymous.

What do you think of the censorship of social media? Does it frustrate you that social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter have the power to violate your right to freedom of expression, or maybe you believe it is the right given to media sites social to be able to decide what can and can not be displayed on their platforms? Let us know your thoughts on censorship of social media by posting here on our blog.

For more information on the project visit Onlinecensorship.org

Google India and RailTel: Public Wi-Fi Project India building

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public Wi-Fi India project was given the green light to equip 400 train stations India with Wi -Fi connection to help connect the country unrelated billion.

Internet usage in India has soared in part because of affordable smartphones. A massive 94 percent of Indian web users use smartphones as the primary means of accessing the Internet, according to Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). The number of Internet users in India is expected to reach 402 million by the end of 2015 - a 49 percent growth over 2014. Approximately one billion people in the country are still not connected to the World Wide Web but this issue is managed by Google India in partnership with RailTel (wing telecommunications Indian Railway), to install public Wi-Fi project in India in stations across the country to help get millions online.

CEO Sundar Pichai Google recently announced on the website of tech giant "last year, 100 million people in India began using the Internet for the first time. this means that there are now more internet users in India than in any country in the world outside China. But what is really amazing is the fact that there are still . nearly a billion people in India who are not online We would like to help you get the next billion Indians online -. So that they can access the entire web and all its information and the possibility "

According to reports , the Indian government has signed an agreement between information Mahataa India Pvt Ltd (a subsidiary of Google Inc.) and RailTel deliver public project Wi-Fi India. At the end of 2016 around 100 stations will be equipped with Wi-Fi networks, providing Internet access to about 10 million people who pass through the station every day. The second phase of public Wi-Fi project in India will be implemented soon after.

This will result in India having the second largest number of Internet users in the world, behind China, which has 650 million Internet users , according to Internet World Stats . Public Wi-Fi project will allow users to 30 minutes of free broadband Internet fast enough to download a movie in just four minutes!

CEO Sundar Pichai Google should visit India on December 16 to discuss the Wi-Fi project in India further.

I wrote about risk users take when using public Wi-Fi hotspots in previous blog posts. Fortunately, there are a number of steps people can take to stay safe on public Wi-Fi hotspots, , including using a VPN ( virtual private network).

What is a VPN?

Think of a VPN as i nvisibility mantle of Harry Potter. When Harry wanted to "disappear", he had shed his invisibility cloak around it to avoid detection.

A VPN is your invisibility cloak on the Internet. As soon as you connect to one of our VPN servers you are invisible to attackers who want to steal your personal information.

Visit our main website for more information or email us and one of our support donkeys will be happy to help.

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