Security News

VPN Firms Release New Patches for Privilege Escalation Flaw
2018-09-10 15:02

Virtual private network (VPN) service providers ProtonVPN and NordVPN have made another attempt to patch a potentially serious privilege escalation vulnerability that they first tried to address a...

VPN Company AnchorFree Raises $295 Million
2018-09-06 08:11

AnchorFree, the company that makes the popular Hotspot Shield virtual private network (VPN) software, on Wednesday announced that it raised $295 million in a new funding round. read more

Facebook pulls its privacy-violating Onavo VPN from Apple’s App Store
2018-08-24 11:58

Apple last week suggested that Facebook remove its Onavo security app from the App store due to privacy rule violations. On Wednesday, Facebook complied.

Facebook pulls 'snoopy' Onavo VPN from Apple's App Store after falling foul of rules
2018-08-23 15:15

Cupertino banned software that slurps data for marketing Facebook has pulled its data-snaffling Onavo VPN from Apple's App Store after the iGiant said the tech violated recently tightened rules.…

Apple Forces Facebook VPN App Out of iOS Store for Stealing Users' Data
2018-08-23 12:48

Facebook yesterday removed its mobile VPN app called Onavo Protect from the iOS App Store after Apple declared the app violated the iPhone maker's App Store guidelines on data collection. For...

Support for ageing key exchange crypto leaves VPNs open to attack
2018-08-15 19:40

Ancient issue causing new ones Security gaps have been identified in widely used implementations of the IPsec protocol, which is used in the set up of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).…

Researchers Break IPsec VPN Connections with 20-Year-Old Protocol Flaw
2018-08-14 16:07

The attack targets IKE’s handshake implementation used for IPsec-based VPN connections, opening the door for MiTM attacks or for bad actors to access data carried in VPN sessions.

Kaspersky VPN Bug Leaked DNS Lookups
2018-08-13 10:15

A recently patched security vulnerability in the Kaspersky VPN application for Android resulted in DNS queries being exposed even after the user connected to a virtual server. read more

Kaspersky VPN blabbed domain names of visited websites – and gave me a $0 reward, says chap
2018-08-09 23:00

DNS leak flaw outside of bug bounty scope, it seems Kaspersky's Android VPN app whispered the names of websites its 1,000,000-plus users visited along with their public IP addresses to the world's...

Drink this potion, Linux kernel, and tomorrow you'll wake up with a WireGuard VPN driver
2018-08-02 06:54

Secure tunneling tech hopes to move from module to resident The developer of WireGuard has laid the groundwork for pouring his open-source privacy tool directly into the Linux kernel in hope of...