Brit boffins' test of 14 prominent privacy tunnels finds leaks galore thanks to IPv6 mess
30 Jun 2015 at 06:32, Darren PauliA team of five researchers from universities in London and Rome have identified that 14 of the top commercial virtual private servers in the world leak IP data.
Vasile C. Perta, Marco V. Barbera, and Alessandro Mei of Sapienza University of Rome, together with Gareth Tyson, and Hamed Haddadi of the Queen Mary University of London say vendor promises of user privacy and security are often lies that put users at risk.
"Despite being a known issue, our experimental study reveals that the majority of VPN services suffer from IPv6 traffic leakage," the authors wrote in the paper A Glance through the VPN Looking Glass: IPv6 Leakage and DNS Hijacking in Commercial VPN clients [PDF].
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