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Title: iOS VPN apps have another flaw, shows new research: excluding many Apple apps
Post by: HCK on October 18, 2022, 04:05:03 pm
iOS VPN apps have another flaw, shows new research: excluding many Apple apps

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<p>A <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/security/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">security[/url] researcher back in August <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2022/08/18/ios-vpn-apps/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">found a significant flaw in iOS VPN apps[/url], and a second researcher has now demonstrated another major issue.</p>
<p>The first problem was that opening a VPN app should close all existing connections, but didn’t. The second is that many Apple apps send <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/privacy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">private[/url] data outside the VPN tunnel, including Health (above) and Wallet …</p>
<p> <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2022/10/12/ios-vpn-apps-2/#more-841569" class="more-link">more…[/url]</p>
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