September 27, 2021
Efforts to make pirate sites harder to access have resulted in two new waves of blocking in the UK. Action by Elsevier and Springer Nature now requires major ISPs to block several additional Sci-Hub-related domains while the efforts of the MPA require them to block domains that facilitate access to previously blocked sites including EZTV, SolarMovie, Icefilms, and more. Naturally – the only way to not be affected by these blocks is by using a VPN. Get Hidden Router VPN and avoid any headaches in the future, be block-proof and as secure as humanly possible. By using the Hidden Router VPN – you piggyback on your ISP to connect to our servers, meaning that you are not affected by any blocks whatsoever. Not just that – but you also get to protect your entire house by connecting all devices to the Hidden Router. Another benefit of the Hidden Router VPN is the network-wide adblock that is integrated in our routers. That means that you will not see websites that are jam packed with ads, you will avoid getting most of the viruses, which are usually distributed via malicious ads, and so much more! But lets get back to the problem […]
September 21, 2021
A zero-day vulnerability in Virgin Media Super Hub 3 routers enables attackers to unmask the true IP addresses of VPN users, security researchers have revealed. Fidus Information Security, a UK penetration testing consultancy, has published details of the flaw nearly two years after first alerting Virgin Media, a British telco, which referred Fidus to Liberty Global, its parent company. Fidus’ R&D team said it initially delayed disclosure for 12 months at the vendor’s request, but subsequent attempts to contact Virgin Media and Liberty Global then failed to elicit responses. However, Virgin Media has told The Daily Swig that it is currently working on a “technical fix” for what it also described it as an “edge-case issue, potentially impacting only a very small subset of customers” who use VPNs. Researchers were able to mount a DNS rebinding attack that revealed a VPN user’s IP address “by [the user] simply visiting a [malicious] webpage for a few seconds”, reads a blog post drafted by Fidus in March but eventually published last week. DNS rebinding attacks weaponize a victim’s browser by making it a proxy for attacking private networks. Privacy implications The researchers successfully de-anonymized devices whose IP addresses were masked by most “market leading VPNs”, Fidus’ R&D team told The […]
December 3, 2019
Well, another giant in the VPN industry bites the dust. The following article contains quotes and links meant to inform VPN consumers concerning the ownership, affiliations, and past business practices of Kape Technologies (formerly known as Crossrider) in light of their acquisition of Private Internet Access VPN. I’d like to start by giving credit where it is due. Forbes did some excellent reporting which detailed the business practices of Crossrider (Kape Technologies) prior to the recent news of their acquisition of PIA. Much of that article will be used for context throughout this one. I highly recommend reading it.[Forbes] These Ex-Israeli Surveillance Agents Hijack Your Browser To Profit From Ads Original: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/06/09/from-israel-unit-8200-to-ad-men/Archived: https://archive.ph/4bPzQ Private Internet Access is in the process of being acquired by Kape Technologies. Kape Technologies is better known by the name under which they were formerly incorporated – “Crossrider” but make no mistake they are the same company which became notorious as an adware/malware producer. [VPNPro] Private Internet Access announces merger with Kape Technologies: Original: https://vpnpro.com/blog/private-internet-access-announces-merger-with-kape-technologies-in-latin/Archived: https://archive.md/xyA9Z#selection-755.0-755.140 Kape Technologies was originally known as Crossrider until the name change in 2018. The reason for that was, as CEO Ido Erlichman put it, “strong association to the past activities […]
November 30, 2019
NordVPN, a company reeling from careless security practices revealed as part of a security breach (one that they covered up for 6 months until they were finally outed for it), had promised to do better. From the NordVPN blog: This is about explaining what we’re going to do to take our security to the next level and make sure nothing like that ever happens again…. We’ve learned our lesson and we want to prove it to you with actions, not just words…. What we can promise is that we have taken this incident to heart and will do everything we can to improve and to win back your trust. That surely sounds nice, but is it true? What I’m about to tell you is distressing, and reveals the true nature of NordVPN’s business practices. Tesonet and Oxylabs See the problem is, NordVPN is linked closely with a Lithuanian data mining company called Tesonet. NordVPN is said to be one of Tesonet’s projects, Oxylabs.io is another one. So what’s the big deal? Oxylabs.io advertises on its website “32M+ residential proxies…100% anonymous proxies from all over the globe with zero IP blocking.” Think of “residential proxies” this way: 1.) Oxylabs installs some malware on to a user’s device, unknown to the user, […]