Putting together the pieces of the Chinese VPN jigsaw puzzle
VPNs are indispensable tools for today's Internet users, and nowhere more so than in China. The famous "Great Firewall of China" – the name given to the set of technologies…
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Chinese government denies plans to block personal use of VPN in China
Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that China was in the process of blocking VPN in China by February 1st, 2018. Inside sources told Bloomberg that state-owned internet service providers (ISPs)…
Great Firewall of China: Chinese government orders ISPs to block personal VPN use by February 1st
The Great Firewall of China is being bolstered in the coming months - increasing censorship for over a billion internet users. According to Bloomberg, the Chinese government has told state-owned…
OpenVPN 2.4.2 fixes critical issues discovered in OpenVPN audit reports
Private Internet Access is happy to release the results of our OpenVPN audit. In concurrence with the release of this report, OpenVPN has released OpenVPN 2.4.2 which is the latest update…
OpenVPN 2.4 Evaluation Summary and Report
Contents 1 Executive Summary2 Introduction2.1 Scope2.2 Approach2.3 Classification and Severity Rating3 Findings3.1 Summary of Findings3.2 Static Analysis Results3.3 Dynamic Analysis Results3.4 Detailed Findings3.4.1 OVPN-01: Sensitive authentication token not wiped on…
Indians are using VPN to bypass an ongoing social media block against Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and more
Over 12 million Indian Internet users in the Jammu and Kashmir region have been blocked from using social networking and social media sites such as Reddit, Facebook and Twitter. Internet service…
Interest in VPN hits all time high as Egypt blocks VoIP apps like Skype, Facetime, Viber, WhatsApp, and even Messenger
Voice over IP (VoIP) apps such as Facetime, Viber, Skype, WhatsApp, and Messenger have been all but unusable from Egypt for the last few days. The recent wave of VoIP…
Russia drafts bill to ban VPNs and proxies; force search engines to remove search results
Russia will soon see a new bill before the Duma that aims to ban VPNs and proxies that do not comply with the Roskamnadzor, Russia's online censorship machine. Though the bill…
Russia threatens to ban VPNs and proxies that don’t censor whatever the government wants
Censorship in Russia may soon be aided by the very websites and services often used to bypass it. Russia censors its Internet through the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere…
4/13 is Australia’s National Get a VPN Day as ISPs and telecoms officially begin metadata retention
April 13th, 2017 is now "National Get a VPN" Day for the entire country of Australia. In March 2015, Australia passed the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill (info).…