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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

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

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.…

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...

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).…

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.

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

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...

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...

NCP engineering announced the NCP Secure Enterprise macOS Client 3.1 and the NCP Secure Entry macOS Client 3.1 for secure virtual private network (VPN) connections. New features of the NCP macOS...