5/19/2023 0 Comments Cyberghost no longer free![]() ![]() Past security concernsĪ 2016 joint study between Australia's national science research foundation and UC Berkeley classified the previously available free version of the CyberGhost VPN app as malicious after it appeared to test positive for malware and requested a higher-than-average number of user permissions. While CyberGhost doesn't offer a multi-hop option, it does offer split-tunneling in its Windows client so you can pick which of your computer's connections you want to encrypt. The company offers a useful kill switch feature, which prevents network data from leaking outside of their secure VPN tunnel in the event the VPN connection fails. ![]() Its lack of obfuscation technology means the service isn't safe to use for privacy and anonymity in countries where VPNs are outlawed, which include China, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.ĬyberGhost's encryption is standard AES-256, and it supports Perfect Forward Secrecy, which means it frequently changes encryption keys to avoid security compromises. ![]() In March 2019, a CNET reviewer likewise found that CyberGhost failed one of our data leak tests, which allowed internet traffic to be seen by an internet service provider. While no IP address, DNS or other potentially user-identifying data leaks were detected during our testing, CyberGhost didn't hide the fact that I was using a VPN, so I recommend some caution here.
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