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What to Ask After a VPN Vendor Breach: Surfshark 2026
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What to Ask After a VPN Vendor Breach: Surfshark 2026

Surfshark disclosed in September 2026 that an unauthorised party had reached an internal engineering test server left misconfigured and reachable from the internet. No user data and no VPN traffic were affected. Here is what the disclosure says, and the questions worth asking any VPN vendor after a breach.

Your VPN App Is Not the Tunnel: Proton's 2026 Tracker Study
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Your VPN App Is Not the Tunnel: Proton's 2026 Tracker Study

A VPN can encrypt every byte you send and still hand your location, device identifiers and carrier to libraries inside the app. Proton AG's 2026 study reports trackers in most mobile VPN apps. Here is what the app layer sees, why it identifies you even with your IP hidden, and how to audit your phone.

India’s VPN Data Retention Rules 2026: What They Mean for You
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India’s VPN Data Retention Rules 2026: What They Mean for You

India’s reported VPN rules would require providers to retain user data and IP addresses for at least five years, including after a customer leaves. Here is what is reportedly being kept, why a logged IP plus a timestamp is more identifying than it sounds, what leaving a jurisdiction does not fix, and what you can do.

What a VPN Hides and What It Cannot: Metadata Limits in 2026
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What a VPN Hides and What It Cannot: Metadata Limits in 2026

In September 2026 a U.S. senator urged the NSA to update federal VPN guidance, citing a congressional memo that said encryption strength alone does not stop bulk metadata collection. This article explains what a single-hop VPN does and does not hide, and what multi-hop, onion and relay designs change.

VPN Detection in 2026: How Sites and Streaming Platforms Block You — and What Actually Works
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VPN Detection in 2026: How Sites and Streaming Platforms Block You — and What Actually Works

Why did Netflix just log you out mid-episode? In 2026 the arms race between VPNs and the platforms that try to block them has moved far beyond IP blacklists. Here is how sites, payments processors, and streaming services detect VPN traffic now — and which obfuscation tools genuinely keep you connected.

AI Scams in 2026: What a VPN Protects You From — and the Defense Stack That Actually Works
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AI Scams in 2026: What a VPN Protects You From — and the Defense Stack That Actually Works

Voice-clone calls, deepfake video calls, and hyper-personalized phishing are now mainstream threats, and they do not target hardened technologists — they target grandparents and teenagers. This guide is honest about what a VPN does and does not do against AI-driven scams, and pairs it with the defenses that block most of the damage.

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