Proxies are great for web scraping and improving network performance. But using one comes with risks and limitations.

Providing a common gateway for web services, caching web requests or providing anonymity are some of the ways organizations use proxy servers. Commercial proxy products, especially cloud offerings, ...

If there is truly a gray zone in the struggle between online good and evil, anonymous proxy servers live there. Organizations typically use proxy servers to forward website, file and other requests to ...

Whether you're in the office or on the road, a VPN is still one of the best ways to protect yourself on the big, bad internet. I've written a number of articles on VPNs, as well as ZDNET's list of the ...

A proxy server acts sort of like a middleman between your browser and servers that display Web pages. They do this by receiving page or link requests from your browser and then passing them to the Web ...