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vpn questions

  • 05-06-2011 10:31pm
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    If someone went to an internet cafe and connected to their office through a vpn, could a keylogger or other spying technology capture the data? If there was a screen capture recording video would it not capture the data?

    Alos a doctor told me he has a private computer connection to a hospital so blood results can be retrieved securely. Is than a vpn ?

    Thanks


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    john__long
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    If someone went to an internet cafe and connected to their office through a vpn, could a keylogger or other spying technology capture the data? If there was a screen capture recording video would it not capture the data?

    A keylogger, kinda. It would only capture data that was typed though. Usually no network data.
    Alos a doctor told me he has a private computer connection to a hospital so blood results can be retrieved securely. Is than a vpn ?

    It's probably not a VPN. It's probably the HSE HealthLinks system. It's protected by SSL certificates.


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    john__long wrote: »
    A keylogger, kinda. It would only capture data that was typed though. Usually no network data.
    but would it not have to be typed to get to the network? Or do you mean it cannot see the company side? and a capture doing screen capture would get all on the bcafe pc side?


    It's probably not a VPN. It's probably the HSE HealthLinks system. It's protected by SSL certificates.
    you are prob right, thanks for reply.
    is it a bit like a tunnel?

    firefox says https://onlinev3.healthlink.ie/ is untrusted?


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    john__long
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    Resend wrote: »
    but would it not have to be typed to get to the network? Or do you mean it cannot see the company side? and a capture doing screen capture would get all on the bcafe pc side?

    Ya, someone would have to type some details obviously. Assumedly a web based login if your gonna be using a café connection. THen yes, a keylogger would get the URL, the username and the password!

    Resend wrote: »
    is it a bit like a tunnel?

    firefox says https://onlinev3.healthlink.ie/ is untrusted?

    Nope. It's not a tunnel of any sort. It's just a straight forward encrypted data transfer. ( see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security )

    SSL certs are not my forté. All I know of the Healthlink connection is that in order to connect, you must request certificates from them. The untrusted warning may be due to an unrecognized root CA?


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