Can a VPN provider or actors within its infrastructure access open ports on the client machine?

From my understanding of a VPN, it essentially creates a network between the two ‘machines’. So if I have open ports (e.g. HTTP, SSH) on my client machine, those can be accessed by the VPN provider or other users.

This leads… Continue reading Can a VPN provider or actors within its infrastructure access open ports on the client machine?

For security purposes, can I use vpn with ufw to allow traffic only from the vpn on ubuntu?

Is this possible? If not through ufw then some other software or iptables? How should I set up the ip tables?

Assuming my public ip is known (and I don’t want to change it), would it provide complete security against hacking… Continue reading For security purposes, can I use vpn with ufw to allow traffic only from the vpn on ubuntu?