Windscribe Acquitted on Charges of Not Collecting Users’ Data

Windscribe Acquitted on Charges of Not Collecting Users’ Data

The company doesn’t keep logs, so couldn’t turn over data:
Windscribe, a globally used privacy-first VPN service, announced today that its founder, Yegor Sak, has been fully acquitted by a court in Athens, Greece, following a two-year legal battle in which Sak was personally charged in connection with an alleged internet offence by an unknown user of the service.
The case centred around a Windscribe-owned server in Finland that was allegedly used to breach a system in Greece. Greek authorities, in cooperation with INTERPOL, traced the IP address to Windscribe’s infrastructure and, unlike standard international procedures, proceeded to initiate criminal proceedings against Sak himself, rather than pursuing information through standard corporate channels…

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Quest Accepted: Setting Up a Pentesting Environment for the Meta Quest 2

Quest Accepted: Setting Up a Pentesting Environment for the Meta Quest 2

With the advent of commercially available virtual reality headsets, such as the Meta Quest, the integration of virtual and augmented reality into our daily lives feels closer than ever before. As these devices become more common, so too will the need to secure and protect the data collected and stored by them.
The intention of this blog post is to establish a baseline security testing environment for Meta Quest 2 applications and is split into three sections: Enabling Developer Mode, Establishing an Intercepting Proxy, and Injecting Frida Gadget. The Quest 2 runs on a modified version of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) in addition to proprietary software developed by Meta, allowing the adoption of many established Android testing methods.
 

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