Privacy Vulnerability Exposes VPN Users' Real IP Addresses

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By timothyNov 27, 2015, 7:42 pm253 pts
An anonymous reader writes: A major security flaw which reveals VPN users' real IP addresses has been discovered by Perfect Privacy (PP). The researchers suggest that the problem affects all VPN protocols, including IPSec, PPTP and OpenVPN. The technique involves a port-forwarding tactic whereby a hacker using…

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