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Not only are Bitcoin wallets and exchanges vulnerable to security breaches but the heart of bitcoin i.e. Blockchain can easily be infected by permanently hosting malware inside it Bitcoin’s blockchain is designed such that it also allows injection of non-financial data through data insertion methods. This data can be either text messages or pictures up to 60-90 KiB in size or more by encoding arbitrary data as standard transactions. 2.24 2.23 2.22 2.21 2.20 2.19 2.18 2.17 2.16 2.15 2.14 2.13 2.12 2.11 2.10 2.9 2.8 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 According to a research done by German researchers from the RWTH Aachen University, over 1,600 files are stored in blockchain. Eight of those files contain objectionable content i.e. Child abuse imagery , two files contain 274 links to child porn sites . Read detail here Among popular images stored in bitcoin’s blockchain are: JPEG image of Nelson Mandela , two nude images of child abuse (which I can’t share) and an image of Mr. B...

Before we jump in to the technicalities, let’s talk a bit about what exactly a Virtual Private Network, commonly known as VPN really is. The VPN is an online security tool that is used to connect to the internet to send and receive data through an encrypted tunnel which reduces the potential risk of your important data from being hacked by third parties which may misuse your data. A VPN hides your Internet Protocol Address (IP) and masks it with that of the VPN’s server you are connected to.  The IP address is provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP), thus whatever you download, upload or whatever purpose you use the internet for is visible to your ISP. For example but not limited to social media account passwords like that of Facebook, Netflix, Gmail. Online banking transactions and your account details might be visible to the ISP and anyone who is monitoring your online whereabouts if you are not using a VPN, this puts your data at a very high potential risk of falling into t...