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No Such Thing As A Free Lunch – Hola VPN

The BBC is reporting today (click here) that free VPN provider Hola has been rocked by botnet accusations, so what does this mean and why should you think twice before using a free service like Hola?

Free VPN providers like Hola might be tempting however they’re not worth compromising your online security or privacy for. Trusted VPNs such as Liberty Shield offer a much safer option to unblock geoblocked content from abroad.

“While analysing Hola, Vectra Threat Labs researchers found that in addition to behaving like a botnet, Hola contains a variety of capabilities that almost appear to be designed to enable a targeted, human-driven cyber attack on the network in which an Hola user’s machine resides.”

This video from LogicLounge sums things up in simple terms…

Isn’t Hola safe and secure?

In a word “No”, at least as far as their FREE service goes!

 

“First, the Hola software can download and install any additional software without the user’s knowledge. This is because in addition to being signed with a valid code-signing certificate, once Hola has been installed, the software installs its own code-signing certificate on the user’s system.”

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