The AI VPN is a free software tool that provides users with an automatic network security assessment of their network traffic. Users can request a new OpenVPN or WireGuard VPN profile via email or Telegram, connect to it for a predefined amount of time (hours to days), and receive a full report after their VPN profile expires.
Civilsphere AI VPN: v0.1-alpha pre-release
Introducing Our New Project: Civilsphere AI VPN
Mobile (in)Security Series: Application "MyFitnessPal" Data Leaking
During a security assessment with the Emergency VPN our researchers found two issues: i) first, we found that the application MyFitnessPal for iOS was leaking the user email address in plain text over the network, and ii) second, advertisings are loaded through insecure connections leaking more data collected from the mobile device.
PhantomLance Android malware highlights the complexity of the mobile threat
The Civilsphere Emergency VPN
Technology has been very beneficial to journalists and activists around the world: it gives journalists access to a wealth of data and makes it easy for them to communicate with sources without having to meet in person, while it can help activists amplify their message. But technology is also increasingly used against the same people through government surveillance and mobile spyware.