New security research offers a rare view inside residential proxy networks, which rely on apps that share a person's internet connection with someone else.
You do understand that ‘overseas’ means ‘anywhere not in my country’, correct? Not a few specific countries, but literally 90+% of the world, with the exact makeup of that 90% depending on where the company is.
Overseas is generally used for “across an ocean”. As this is an NA based publication, “overseas” would likely be Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania.
Malicious traffic frequently originates from at least one place in every one of those continents. We were breached some time ago by a TA using a residential proxy to send traffic from a Ukr AS block that got around our firewall. Blocking all traffic from regions of the world that you have no intention of servicing is a very valid cybersecurity layer. Getting annoyed because someone used the phrase “overseas” to describe areas to be suspicious of I think is rather short sighted from a security point of view.
Very few cyber attacks come from domestic/near domestic sources, except from botnets and residential proxies. The world will not miss residential proxies.
You do understand that ‘overseas’ means ‘anywhere not in my country’, correct? Not a few specific countries, but literally 90+% of the world, with the exact makeup of that 90% depending on where the company is.
Overseas is generally used for “across an ocean”. As this is an NA based publication, “overseas” would likely be Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania.
Malicious traffic frequently originates from at least one place in every one of those continents. We were breached some time ago by a TA using a residential proxy to send traffic from a Ukr AS block that got around our firewall. Blocking all traffic from regions of the world that you have no intention of servicing is a very valid cybersecurity layer. Getting annoyed because someone used the phrase “overseas” to describe areas to be suspicious of I think is rather short sighted from a security point of view.
Very few cyber attacks come from domestic/near domestic sources, except from botnets and residential proxies. The world will not miss residential proxies.