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Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

Be mindful of VPNs as then are once again not a silver bullet

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Be mindful of VPNs as then are once again not a silver bullet

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Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

This Week In Security: TunnelCrack, Mutant, And Not Discord

Up first is a clever attack against VPNs, using some clever DNS and routing tricks. The technique is known as TunnelCrack (PDF), and every VPN tested was vulnerable to one of the two attacks, on at…

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TL;DR: Wiregaurd protocol is safe from this vulnerability if you use DOH,DOT, etc. I wonder about openVPN
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  It’s not a protocol vulnerability.

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