Is true anonymity possible online? As more companies and governments threaten our online privacy, people are looking for more ways to browse the internet with increased privacy or total anonymity. We will therefore explore why people are choosing to browse the web anonymously, why it’s important, and popular tools to browse the web with increased privacy or total anonymity.

If you are a mature organization, you might manage an external IP block of 65,000 IP addresses (equivalent to a /16 network). In contrast, very large organizations like Apple may handle an astonishing 16.7 million IP addresses or more (about a /8 network). However, this isn’t the case for many of us. IP addresses are fixed assets and can be costly, so most modern organizations do not have a large number of directly assigned IP addresses for every service they expose to the internet.

Most countries have some sort of government agency dedicated to protecting digital infrastructure and promoting cybersecurity awareness. In the English-speaking world alone, the UK has the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), the US has the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and Canada has the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security; chances are you’re already aware of them.

A newly identified cyber campaign has been actively targeting organizations across multiple sectors in Japan since January 2025. Threat actors of unknown origin have been exploiting CVE-2024-4577, a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the PHP-CGI implementation of PHP on Windows, to gain unauthorized access to victim systems. This campaign has primarily impacted Japan’s technology, telecommunications, and e-commerce industries.

Developers are trapped in a loop: constantly chasing dependency upgrades to mitigate security risks or chasing down security reports of vulnerable code or findings in the CI pipeline. Developers often refer to this as “vulnerability fatigue,” a term commonly referenced in npm package install logs that list the newly introduced security vulnerabilities for third-party dependencies.