Submitted by John Locke on

There is now a tool that can easily crack PPTP authentication, which is what is used in the basic Virtual Private Networking standard included in Windows. Because of its wide deployment, PPTP is perhaps the easiest type of VPN to deploy--but it should no longer be considered secure. Read more at ZDNet.com: George Ou » PPTP VPN authentication protocol proven very susceptible to attack.

At Freelock Computing, we recommend and deploy OpenVPN for secure, cross-platform, relatively easy to administer private networks.

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