CEO and Co-Founder of AnchorFree, David Gorodyansky, recently appeared on Fox Business’s Small Business Big Ideas to explain how Hotspot Shield allows consumers to take control of their privacy and keep hackers and online trackers away. It’s important for consumers to understand that everything done online can be tracked and accessed by hackers and cyber [...]
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Hotspot Shield hits 10 million mobile installs!
Today we’ve reached another milestone. Hotspot Shield hits 10 million installs on iOS and Android within just a year and a half of launching our mobile apps! Not many mobile security products are able to reach 10 million installs, so we are very proud of this accomplishment. Ever since we launched Hotspot Shield for iOS and Android, [...]
Online Content Access: Don’t Get Clicked Off
Even if content providers or government restricts consumers from accessing censored content, there will always be a way to access it. The answer is the Internet. With digital streaming, people are able to watch certain tv shows and videos from all parts of the world. However, some content are still blocked in other countries. For [...]
Compressing Costs & Bandwidth
If you own a smartphone, do you find yourself occasionally going over your data limit plan? Have you sometimes noticed that your data speed is much slower than usual? This is because some mobile operators throttle the bandwidth to smartphone users for the extra data consumption. The next thing you know, you see your mobile [...]
Federal Trade Commission: Identity theft complaints up by over 33%
Identity theft complaints grew by one-third during 2012 and again it was the number one issue in the United States. This rate of increase is almost three times the growth rate from 2010-2011 (12%). Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Top 10 Consumer Complaints Report for 2012, released today. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book – an [...]
2012 – the Year of the Password Thefts
2012 may be the greatest year for many things, from fight for internet freedom to figuring out the true power of social media. 2012 is also, at the same time, the greatest and most profitable year for cyber criminals. This year alone has seen more data security issues than any other year in the internet [...]
The Internet from 2002 to 2012 – an Infographic
The Internet may be the greatest invention in history. It definitely is the most mind boggling invention in history. Imagine describing fire to someone in the year 46 AD. Now imagine describing fire to someone in the year 2150 AD. Doesn’t seem difficult, right? Now imagine describing the Internet to someone in 46 AD, 1500AD, [...]
How Hotspot Shield Mobile Saves You Money – Infographic
While we love Hotspot Shield, we also love phones and working with numbers. That is why we’re very passionate about Hotspot Shield Mobile, which is available for both your iOS (iPhone/iPad/iPod-touch) devices and the Android devices. We recently did some study to see what kind of savings and benefits Hotspot Shield Mobile brings to you via [...]