this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
52 points (100.0% liked)

Technology

37708 readers
336 users here now

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
alyaza@beehaw.org
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org
gyrfalcon@beehaw.org
rs5th@beehaw.org
Los@beehaw.org
coldredlight@beehaw.org
SemioticStandard@beehaw.org
TheRtRevKaiser@kbin.social
remington@beehaw.org
52
Researchers claim to have detected vulnerabilities in VPN clients that went unnoticed -at least publicly- since 1996 (tunnelcrack.mathyvanhoef.com)
submitted 1 year ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/technology@beehaw.org
10 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Tests indicate that every VPN product is vulnerable on at least one device, the researchers say. VPNs for iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, and macOS are extremely likely to be vulnerable, that a majority of VPNs on Windows and Linux are vulnerable, and that Android is the most secure with roughly one-quarter of VPN apps being vulnerable.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ADHDefy@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's too bad they don't offer a complete list of known patched VPNs. They just give like 5 example ones. It'd be really helpful to know if my service has patched already or not.

[–] sunbather@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

unsure about patches applied since writing, but near the ending pages in the original paper theres a more exhaustive list of the state of vpns