jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoNovel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purposearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square123fedilinkarrow-up1496cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanssecurity@lemmy.mlprivacy@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1496external-linkNovel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purposearstechnica.comjeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square123fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanssecurity@lemmy.mlprivacy@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.ml
minus-squaredesktop_userlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·7 months ago There are very little, if any, benefits to using a VPN service to browse the public internet. accessing services that are blocked in your region.
minus-squarelurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agothat works, but a regular SOCKS proxy should do. for HTTP even a HTTP proxy. many VPN providers offer them too, btw… may help with mitigating this attack vector.
accessing services that are blocked in your region.
that works, but a regular SOCKS proxy should do. for HTTP even a HTTP proxy. many VPN providers offer them too, btw… may help with mitigating this attack vector.