DYK most VPN services can actually make you less secure? Today x.com/PET_Symposium, Benjamin Mixon-Baca will present research done in collaboration with the Citizen Lab about how VPNs can enable an attacker to act as an in-path router between you and the VPN server. The study identifies a new vulnerability called a “port shadow”.https://petsymposium.org/popets/2024/popets-2024-0070.pdf
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