Owner Hide My Ass Multimillionaire By Selling VPN Service

The Czech anti-virus company AVG has the VPN service Hide My Ass adopted , allowing the 26-year-old developer and owner multimillionaire has become. The sale has Jack Cator, the Briton who the VPN service a decade ago in one afternoon put together, earned 35 million euros.

In addition, AVG will pay another 17.5 million if the VPN service over the next year is able to achieve certain goals. Cator decided to develop the VPN service because he was at school some music and games sites could not visit. Through a VPN enabled him to reach those websites because first connection was made with another machine, where websites could then be visited.

The then 16-year-old Cator thought to be desired quality of existing VPN services and decided to build his own VPN solution, so let him across the BBC know. In just one afternoon he set Hide My Ass in each other, which was in ten years one of the leading VPN providers in the world, with 250,000 paying users. Despite the acquisition Cator will remain as director of Hide My Ass.

7-Year-Old Girl Performs Wifi Attack Within 11 Minutes

A 7-year-old British girl has given a demonstration of how easy it is to run a wifi attack with minimal knowledge. The demonstration was part of an awareness campaign of a VPN provider, who wants to make consumers aware of the risks of open Wi-Fi networks.

Betsy Davies, who had her parents' permission, the demonstration began with the search of instructional videos on YouTube.Then she put a "rogue access point" at which users of the Wi-Fi network without they made ​​it knew the connection. In this way, Davies could intercept the traffic of users. Eventually, they had a 10-minute and 54 seconds in order to carry out the attack. A security expert oversaw the demonstration, reports the Daily Mail .