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steve2470

(37,461 posts)
Wed Jul 1, 2015, 10:36 AM Jul 2015

VPNs are so insecure you might as well wear a KICK ME sign

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/30/worlds_best_vpns_fall_flat_in_security_tests/

(yes the actual headline from the website)

A team of five researchers from universities in London and Rome have identified that 14 of the top commercial virtual private networks in the world leak IP data.

Vasile C. Perta, Marco V. Barbera, and Alessandro Mei of Sapienza University of Rome, together with Gareth Tyson, and Hamed Haddadi of the Queen Mary University of London say vendor promises of user privacy and security are often lies that put users at risk.

"Despite being a known issue, our experimental study reveals that the majority of VPN services suffer from IPv6 traffic leakage," the authors wrote in the paper A Glance through the VPN Looking Glass: IPv6 Leakage and DNS Hijacking in Commercial VPN clients [PDF].

"Our findings confirm the criticality of the current situation: many of these [14] providers leak all, or a critical part of the user traffic in mildly adversarial environments.

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VPNs are so insecure you might as well wear a KICK ME sign (Original Post) steve2470 Jul 2015 OP
Great information! marym625 Jul 2015 #1
very welcome my friend steve2470 Jul 2015 #2
We do. marym625 Jul 2015 #3
I know that whenever I move our computers from one VPN to another, I truedelphi Jul 2015 #4

steve2470

(37,461 posts)
2. very welcome my friend
Wed Jul 1, 2015, 10:41 AM
Jul 2015

Hope Chi-town is treating you well. Does anyone in Chicago actually use that phrase, or is it a tourist thing or ?

marym625

(17,997 posts)
3. We do.
Wed Jul 1, 2015, 10:45 AM
Jul 2015

Probably not as often as tourists but we use it

We're supposed to have a high of 65 degrees today. It's July!

Hope you are well and warmer than here, my friend.

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
4. I know that whenever I move our computers from one VPN to another, I
Sat Jul 11, 2015, 03:55 PM
Jul 2015

immediately run the new VPN's program. And then I get notified as to some major viruses and trojans etc. that the newly replaced program did not find.

That alone really makes me wonder.

This article confirms my apprehensions and somewhat explains why this occurance is a reality.

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