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Proton VPN kills off legacy OpenVPN configs in push for better security

Proton VPN is removing support for old manual OpenVPN configuration files Users must download new configs or switch to WireGuard before February 28 Proton VPN confirms that support for OpenVPN on its ...
Bleeping Computer

Downloading 3rd Party OpenVPN Configs May Be Dangerous. Here's Why.

Call me a cynic, but one thing I have learned from the using the Internet is to double-check, if not triple-check, everything you download. So many downloads have malware, adware, and scripts that ...
PC World

OpenVPN servers can be vulnerable to Shellshock Bash vulnerability

Virtual private network servers based on OpenVPN might be vulnerable to remote code execution attacks through Shellshock and other recent flaws that affect the Bash Unix shell. The OpenVPN attack ...
Linux Journal

Paranoid Penguin - Linux VPNs with OpenVPN, Part III

In my previous two columns, I began a series on building Linux-based Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions using OpenVPN. When I left off last time, I had gotten as far through the OpenVPN server ...
Threat Post

ProtonVPN, NordVPN Flaws Open Door to Privilege Escalation

The flaws disclosed this month are related to a critical bug previously discovered by VerSprite in April 2018. A pair of vulnerabilities in the ProtonVPN and NordVPN VPN clients have been uncovered, ...