The tech giant's move has sparked criticism from service providers, who say that Virtual Private Networks are crucial for users bypassing the so-called "Great Firewall of China." Over the weekend, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover information security, privacy and Bitcoin. There are plenty of legal, registered VPN providers in China, most of which are ...

Chinese hackers are relying on legitimate VPN services to mask illegal activities, and for the first time, a diplomatic organization in the European Union is among their targets. These findings come ...

As VPN apps started to disappear from China's iOS App Store over the weekend, users in the country were frantically downloading as many as they could. On Saturday, Apple pulled the rug out from under ...

In a move sure to put Apple's ongoing activities in China under a more intense international microscope, a number of foreign-made VPN software apps have been removed from China's app store, according ...

Apple Inc. has removed dozens of virtual private network services from its App Store in China, dealing a blow to Internet users there hoping to evade censorship to reach a host of banned sites, such ...

Google has banned ads for virtual private network (VPN) products targeting Chinese users, ZDNet has learned today. The company cited "local legal restrictions" as the cause of the VPN ad ban. "It is ...

China is one of the most fascinating tourist destinations. Whether you want to admire the Shanghai skyline at night rather than relax in the countryside of Hunan, China is the perfect place for both ...

China has long censored what its people can access online by developing a complex set of content filtering tools known as the Great Firewall (GFW). But a recent move to close the system’s one last ...

China’s latest move to crackdown on VPN software that enables people to circumvent its internet censorship system appears to be a very worrying one. Bloomberg reports that the government has requested ...

A software developer in southern China surnamed Xie was at home on a recent day, when he responded to a knock on the door. He opened it to find three plainclothes policemen. Xie asks that we just use ...