gfxgfx
 
Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
 
gfx gfx
gfx
76793 Posts in 13502 Topics by 1651 Members - Latest Member: Arnold99 October 04, 2024, 10:11:36 pm
*
gfx*gfx
gfx
WinMX World :: Forum  |  Discussion  |  WinMx World News  |  VPN Flaw Could Expose Genuine IP
gfx
gfxgfx
 

Author Topic: VPN Flaw Could Expose Genuine IP  (Read 751 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline GhostShip

  • Ret. WinMX Special Forces
  • WMW Team
  • *****
VPN Flaw Could Expose Genuine IP
« on: December 02, 2015, 02:12:55 am »
Ths isnt very professional  :no:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/30/port_fail_vpn/
Quote
Virtual Private Network (VPN) protocols have a design flaw that can be potentially exploited by snoops to identify some users' real IP addresses.
VPN provider Perfect Privacy, which discovered the security weakness, has dubbed it "port fail", and says it affects VPNs based on the IPSec (Internet Protocol security) or PPTP (point-to-point tunnelling protocol) specifications, or using the OpenVPN client software.

BitTorrent users are under particular threat, Perfect Privacy says, because if they use port forwarding as their default torrent client port, they don't need to be tricked into visiting an attacker's web site.

Whilst its probably already been exploited by some group or other at least now the door can be bolted shut to prevent further snooping.

WinMX World :: Forum  |  Discussion  |  WinMx World News  |  VPN Flaw Could Expose Genuine IP
 

gfxgfx
gfx
©2005-2024 WinMXWorld.com. All Rights Reserved.
SMF 2.0.19 | SMF © 2021, Simple Machines | Terms and Policies
Page created in 0.015 seconds with 23 queries.
Helios Multi © Bloc
gfx
Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!