The world of frontend testing and web scraping is evolving constantly. The more web technologies are there, the more complex websites become. And when things become complex, we need to test them. Puppeteer is an open source library developed by Google that was built in purpose...
At the time of writing this article, Spotify is open for use in 65 countries, far behind its rivals Deezer and Apple Music. What happens to users in restricted countries? Well, they just see a message of “Spotify is not available in your country”. How to...
The internet is a big and anonymous place...
According to recent reports, a major European aerospace giant, Airbus, has been hit by an entire series of hacking attacks. The attackers did not target the company directly, but instead, they approached it by targeting the VPNs of its suppliers. Airbus under a series of attacks Airbus...
According to a recent report, there is a new hacking group out there with rather advanced skills, which managed to compromise as many as 11 IT service providers. The group was reported by security researchers working at Symantec, whose theory is that the hackers' end-goal...
Proxy management can be a serious issue and anyone who has worked on a web scraping project knows it very well. Proxies are (or at least should be) an integral part of the web scraping process because they offer many benefits. However, it can be slightly...
In the last few years, internet censorship has become a big issue. Global internet security is under threat from governments trying to control the content the public can access and upload to the internet. But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t a way to protect yourself...
Virtual Private Networks, better known as VPNs, have become a necessity for internet users everywhere. They allow internet users to connect to an isolated network privately and securely. This technology ensures a private and encrypted connection thanks to what is known as a VPN tunnel, through...
A proxy server is a computer that acts as an intermediary between the user's computer and the Internet. Proxies can be used for a multitude of different reasons, such as sharing internet connections on a local area network, hiding your IP address, accessing websites that...
Since its inception, the world wide web has been a free and unbiased source of information for worldwide users. However, as the internet closely follows the rules of the world we live in, it has also come to be much different than it was originally...