Most internet anonymity [VPN service] software leaks users' details
http://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/items/se/158459.html
The study of fourteen popular VPN providers found that eleven of them
leaked information about the user because of a vulnerability known as
'IPv6 leakage'. The leaked information ranged from the websites a user is
accessing to the actual content of user communications, for example
comments being posted on forums. Interactions with websites running HTTPS
encryption, which includes financial transactions, were not leaked. The
leakage occurs because network operators are increasingly deploying a new
version of the protocol used to run the Internet called IPv6. IPv6
replaces the previous IPv4, but many VPNs only protect user's IPv4
traffic. The researchers tested their ideas by choosing fourteen of the
most famous VPN providers and connecting various devices to a WiFi access
point which was designed to mimic the attacks hackers might use.
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--Lauren--
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