At a recent Telecomix Cipher conference it was revealed that a security flaw in PPTP-VPN allows third parties to find the true IP-address of someone connected through the VPN.
http://bambuser.com/channel/telecomix/broadcast/832366
The technical details of the vulnerability, explained in this talk reveal that the true IP-address of users using IPv6 can be easily traced. Even worse, it seems that the Swedish Anti-piracy Bureau may already be using this flaw to gather data on ?anonymous? BitTorrent users.
The solution is to turn off IPv6.
Source: http://www.instantfundas.com/2010/06/security-flaw-makes-pptp-vpn-useless.html
http://bambuser.com/channel/telecomix/broadcast/832366
The technical details of the vulnerability, explained in this talk reveal that the true IP-address of users using IPv6 can be easily traced. Even worse, it seems that the Swedish Anti-piracy Bureau may already be using this flaw to gather data on ?anonymous? BitTorrent users.
The solution is to turn off IPv6.
Source: http://www.instantfundas.com/2010/06/security-flaw-makes-pptp-vpn-useless.html