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VPN Test: How to check if your VPN is working or not

Malwarebytes

The primary function of a Virtual Private Network (VPN) is to enhance your online privacy and security. Performing a VPN test or two can help you ensure that it’s up to the mark. VPN privacy test. In particular it stops them looking at your DNS traffic, which can reveal which websites you’re visiting.

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Bing ad for NordVPN leads to SecTopRAT

Malwarebytes

In this blog post, we look at a very recent malvertising campaign impersonating the popular VPN software NordVPN. A malicious advertiser is capturing traffic from Bing searches and redirecting users to a decoy site that looks almost identical to the real one. This is true here as well, where we have a redirect to besthord-vpn[.]com

VPN 101
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Some Zyxel devices can be hacked via DNS requests

Security Affairs

Experts at SEC Consult discovered several security issues in various Zyxel devices that allow to hack them via unauthenticated DNS requests. The first issue is an information disclosure flaw via unauthenticated external DNS requests that affect Zyxel devices from the USG, UAG, ATP, VPN and NXC series. Pierluigi Paganini.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

911 says its network is made up entirely of users who voluntarily install its “free VPN” software. In this scenario, users indeed get to use a free VPN service, but they are often unaware that doing so will turn their computer into a proxy that lets others use their Internet address to transact online. “The 911[.]re

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Security expert discovered a bug that affects million Kaspersky VPN users

Security Affairs

A security issue exists in Kaspersky VPN <=v1.4.0.216 which leaks your DNS Address even after you’re connected to any virtual server. What is a DNS leaks ? In this context, with the term “DNS leak” we indicate an unencrypted DNS query sent by your system OUTSIDE the established VPN tunnel.

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Q&A: Here’s why VPNs are likely to remain a valuable DIY security tool for consumers, SMBs

The Last Watchdog

Related: VPNs vs ZTNA. It’s in findings of a deep dive data analytics study led by Surfshark , a supplier of VPN services aimed at the consumer and SMB markets. Here are excerpts of our dialogue, edited for clarity and length: LW: Is it safe to assume demand for consumer VPNs has spiked, post Covid19?

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TrustPid is another worrying, imperfect attempt to replace tracking cookies

Malwarebytes

Advertisers are seeing the end of the tracking cookie on the horizon and it’s coming closer. And the usual income for most of those sites comes from advertising. Why the ISP providers feel that it is part of their job description to enable targeted advertising escapes me. The end of the tracking cookie.