Some users might still be vulnerable

Cyber attackers, believed to be working for the Chinese government, breached over 20,000 VPN devices sold by Fortinet by exploiting a critical vulnerability that remained undisclosed by the company for a fortnight post-repair.

Expects internet to surrender in three days

Tsar Vladimir Putin has unleashed his communications watchdogs on VPNs in a desperate bid to make sure no one sources their news from anyone other than him.

Angry users fling fruit

Big Cheeses at the Mozzarella Foundation have said sorry after installing a full-page advert promoting Mozilla VPN on Firefox.

Who did not see that coming?

Utah citizens are rushing to open VPN accounts as a means to circumvent Utah's new law requiring porn sites to verify users' ages.

Don't you mess with revenue 

Google will ban Android VPN apps in its Play store from iblocking advertising which could cause some major headaches for privacy applications.

Claims it covered up cyber-attack were untrue

Brian Krebs, at the Krebs on Security blog has been sued by Ubiquiti which claims that a report that the company played down a security breach was untrue.

Software genii strike again

The fruity cargo cult Apple’s software genii have had yet another success developing VPN software which reveals all its users secrets and stops traffic from being encrypted.

Too easy to p p pick up a penguin

Insecurity experts at Breakpointing Bad have found aa new vulnerability allowing potential attackers to hijack VPN connections on affected *NIX devices and inject arbitrary data payloads into IPv4 and IPv6 TCP streams.

Rather, old fruit

Mozilla is resurrecting its recently Test Pilot programme with a renewed focus on privacy-focused tools and products and among the collection is a VPN.

Microsoft appears to be botching things lately

Windows 10 users have been exposed to a worrying new vulnerability, which will bork their VPN.