The question of the botnet was recently raised by the 8chan founder, Fredrick Brennan, who said that an attack on its website could be traced back to Luminati computers on the network.
Hola VPN is actually a (P2P) peer-to-peer VPN service that is able to provide his services for nothing by selling bandwidth Hola users. However, this leaves the door open to spam, malware and potential third party software unscrupulous access user connections Hola VPN and use it for illegal activities, users have no idea what is happening.
A group of researchers and Hola Adios-coders said on their website "Hola VPN is a" peer-to-peer. "This may sound nice, but what it means in fact that other people browse the Web through your Internet connection, similar to how Tor works. for a website, it seems like this is that you use the site ... Imagine someone downloaded child pornography through your connection, for example. for everyone, it seems as if it was your computer that did it, and you can not really prove otherwise. "
the researchers also found Adios a number of serious security vulnerabilities with Hola VPN. Hola claim that they fixed "two vulnerabilities" but Hola Adios, found that "The vulnerabilities are * always * there, they just broke our vulnerability checker and operate demonstration. Not only; there were not two vulnerabilities, there were six. "
But it is not all-According Adios Hola!" ... On some systems, there is worse; Hola will be happy to run everything as you feed User 'SYSTEM'. What this means in simple terms is that someone can completely compromise your system beyond repair. It allows you to install things like a rootkit, for example. "
In an attempt to reassure around 9.7 million users of its free VPN, Hola quickly updated their FAQ to ensure that their users (if they have any left) are fully aware that their free VPN service is actually a P2P program.
"We assumed that by stating that Hola is a P2P network, it was clear that people share their bandwidth with the Community network in exchange for free service. After all, people have done for years with services like Skype. It is not known to all our users, and we want this to be absolutely clear. "
The problem here is that their users do not know that Hola VPN were selling bandwidth users and, more worryingly, Luminati / Hola seemed not check or care what people used to.
"If you do not pay for it, you are the product!", as they say.
there is no such thing as a meal Free!
When we agree to a "free" service, we must ask, why is it free? What is the business out of this situation? companies give us some very rarely . something for free on the goodness of their heart in this digital age, we are often giving away our personal data in exchange for products or services or to save money on health insurance - and in this case, the user Hola VPNs are giving away their right to privacy and security that could be used against. criminals and other third
Hola VPNs are now looking to employ a head of security ... yep - good idea
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