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Best Free VPN Extensions for Chrome in 2026: Which Ones Are Actually Safe?

Some free Chrome VPN extensions protect your privacy. Others collect the browsing data they claim to secure and sell it to advertisers. The difference is not obvious from the Chrome Web Store listing: it sits in the audit record, the ownership structure, and the privacy policy language that most users never read. Internxt VPN is among the five extensions reviewed here.

The Best Cybersecurity Solutions Globally In 2026

Everyone needs to protect themselves online, whether you are operating a business or just being an individual on the internet. And as it happens, there are now countless ways to make sure you are doing just that. In this post, we are going to consider what the very best cybersecurity solutions might be, and how you might want to approach this on the whole, in whatever way you might be using the internet yourself.

What Is a Fully Managed IT Solution?

A fully managed IT solution is a service model in which a third-party Managed Service Provider (MSP) takes complete ownership of an organization's entire IT environment, covering infrastructure management, cybersecurity, cloud services, help desk support, network monitoring, data backup, and strategic IT planning, all under a single predictable monthly contract. The provider proactively monitors, maintains, and secures your systems around the clock, resolving issues before they impact business operations.

When a National VPN Crackdown Broke the Banks: What Russia's April 3 Outage Teaches Enterprise Security Leaders

On the afternoon of April 3, 2026, shoppers in Moscow discovered their contactless payments were dead. Payment terminals at Sberbank, VTB, and T-Bank - three of Russia's largest banks - threw errors simultaneously. The Moscow metro opened its turnstiles and waved commuters through. Restaurants reverted to cash. A zoo in the south of the country briefly stopped admitting paying visitors. The outage was not a cyberattack, a cloud failure, or a ransomware event. It was the Russian telecom regulator, Roskomnadzor, trying to block VPN traffic - and accidentally blackholing IP ranges belonging to its own critical banking infrastructure.

10 Essential Tools Every Cybersecurity Professional Uses

Working in cybersecurity means that you are constantly dealing with all kinds of potential threats. And that's why it's inherently important to find ways of improving that security, which can prove to be very challenging a lot of the time. But that's why cybersecurity professionals are continually relying on professional tools to get their job done. Here's what they are using.

From human-scale to AI-scale: Lessons in resilience from RSAC 2026

The halls of RSAC 2026 were buzzing with a singular question: "How do we defend an ecosystem that is moving faster than we can think?" During a featured session last week, Brian Dye (CEO, Corelight) talked with Deneen DeFiore (CISO, United Airlines) about the realities of protecting one of the world's most complex digital environments.

Episode 13 - Battle-Hardened Research: Navigating the Intersection of AI and Open Source

Richard Bejtlich sits down with Ali Islam to pull back the curtain on how a security research lab functions within a modern security company. Moving beyond the "ivory tower" of academia, Ali explains why researchers must be battle-hardened by real-world threat actor techniques to remain effective in the field. The conversation dives into Corelight’s unique commitment to the open source community through the direct funding of Zeek and Suricata developers, ensuring that community-driven tools can scale to meet massive enterprise traffic demands.

Global Campaign Discovered with Modbus PLCs Targeted and China-Geolocated Infrastructure Observed

From September – November 2025, Cato Networks threat researchers observed a global campaign involving suspicious Modbus/TCP (transmission control protocol) activity against internet-exposed PLCs (programmable logic controllers). The targeted footprint spanned 70 countries and 14,426 distinct targeted IPs, with the largest share of activity in the United States.

How PCB Layout Affects Wireless Performance

Wireless performance is often discussed as if it were determined mainly by the radio chip, antenna type, or communication protocol. Those factors do matter, but they do not tell the whole story. In real products, PCB layout often has just as much influence on wireless behavior as the module itself.