Mobile VPN security is not as strong as advertised, research suggests (techxplore.com)

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Many digital users rely on Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to combat security threats, allowing the application to view, intercept and handle all user traffic in return for hiding identifying information from third parties. Yet a new mobile VPN security testing framework—MVPNalyzer—found many popular VPNs breach user trust, according to a University of Michigan Engineering study.

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[-] ArrowMax@feddit.org 12 points 2 days ago

VIII. Conclusion We applied MVPNalyzer to 281 operational free VPN apps from the Google Play Store and uncovered alarming issues in security and privacy practices [...] Many of these apps found with issues have tens of millions of installs and appear among top Play Store search results.

Free VPN apps... Not exactly surprising, but worth investigating to combat misinformation regarding app-security, I guess.

[-] Dadifer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Ah. I always assumed those were meant to sell your information.

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