As technology continues to advance, our security needs to get a lot stronger. Firewalls and anti-virus software is all well and good but we need to go beyond that. With that in mind, a VPN has gone from something occasionally useful to a necessity for most people. Here are eight reasons why you should use one: 1. Security One of the biggest reasons to use a VPN is the extra security that it provides you. In a world in which so much that we do is online, not least banking and managing credit cards and things, this gives...

The Deep Dark Web It’s very easy to make the comparison between the internet and the ocean: both are expansive bodies, ever evolving and changing. To take the analogy further, right now you are floating out on the very surface in the warm, safe waters. But there are things that lie beneath what you can access on your phone or your laptop, in the part of the internet known as the ‘deep web’ The name ‘deep web’ sounds ominous but, in fact, the term simply refers to sites and pages that cannot be accessed by traditional browsers. Like...