October 11th Cybersecurity Update – Cyber Anon Search

Recent revelations about online National Security Agency surveillance have sparked an uptick, in use of anonymous web browsing services. Computerworld reports, companies offering that service are seeing a spike in usage. A startup called Disconnect Search launched Monday, and by yesterday morning had more than 400 thousand searches. Duck-Duck-Go had 54 million searches in May, before Snowden went public. Last month, it had 116 million. Because the company doesn’t collect user information, it can’t say how many individuals have used the service. Anonymous search companies let visitors use their usual search engines, but the queries are routed through the companies’ servers, removing an identification of the searcher.

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