VPNs and Tunnelling: What a VPN Actually Does, and the Half the Marketing Leaves Out
At the end of the last post, we were standing on dangerous ground: the untrusted local network. The coffee-shop Wi-Fi where a rogue DHCP server might hand you a poisoned configuration, or an ARP-poisoning attacker might quietly slip into the middle of your connection. The obvious question is, what do you do about it? And the answer almost everyone reaches for, the tool marketed relentlessly as the solution to exactly this, is a VPN. VPNs are among the most heavily advertised products in all of t
🎯 Vulnerability: Web Security Vulnerability
💡 Defense Fix: Implement strict input validation, contextual output encoding, and enforce least-privilege authorization controls.