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Several Privacy-Busting Bugs Found in Popular VPN Services

posted by cmn32480 on Friday March 16 2018, @04:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the i-wanna-be-an-anonymous-coward dept.

"exec" writes:

Three popular VPN services have been found to leak private user information, which if exploited could be used to identify users.

The report, published Tuesday, reveals several vulnerabilities in Hotspot Shield, Zenmate, and PureVPN -- all of which promise to provide privacy for their users.

But the research reveals bugs that can leak real-world IP addresses, which in some cases can identify individual users and determine a user's location.

In the case of Hotspot Shield, three separate bugs in how the company's Chrome extension handles proxy auto-config scripts -- used to direct traffic to the right places -- leaked both IP and DNS addresses, which undermines the effectiveness of privacy and anonymity services.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/more-privacy-busting-bugs-found-in-popular-vpn-services/

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @06:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @06:47AM (#653982)

    Indeed. Pretty funny for somebody using a proprietary browser by the biggest spy master around to care about lack of privacy...

    Protip: The small print in EULAs and TOSes isn't small by accident.