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IVPN acquires Safing, operator of Portmaster and the SPN network

By Nicholas Pestell | By Viktor Vecsei | Posted on December 3, 2024

The key points IVPN has acquired Safing ICS Technologies GmbH*, the company behind the consumer firewall application Portmaster and the SPN network Over the coming months, the IVPN team will take over the operation of the Portmaster and SPN services IVPN is committed to continuing the improvement of the VPN service, Portmaster, and the SPN network with a focus on better integration across our services The why and how We believe a trustworthy VPN service is just one part of the essential toolkit for resisting online surveillance.

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DNS traffic leak outside VPN tunnel on Android

By IVPN Staff | Posted on June 13, 2024

Recently we were made aware of a potential DNS traffic leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android. Even with Android OS “Always-on VPN” and “Block connections without VPN” options enabled, as per the report the plaintext DNS traffic can be observed outside the VPN tunnel.

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IVPN web infrastructure security audit concluded

By Nick Pestell | Posted on April 11, 2024

We’re pleased to announce that a sixth annual independent security audit has concluded. The assessment focused on Web UI, backend components, API endpoints, underlying web servers, and web infrastructure. We’d like to share two key excerpts from the report:

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IVPN preparing for 6th annual security audit

By Nick Pestell | Posted on February 15, 2024

Consistent with our pledge to conduct a yearly review of our systems, we have commissioned the independent security auditing organisation Cure53 to perform a security audit in March 2024. As we remarked last year, audits we arrange focus on parts of our systems that received significant updates.

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Change of company name to IVPN Limited

By IVPN Staff | Posted on August 10, 2023

We have officially changed the name of the company operating IVPN from Privatus Limited to IVPN Limited. Ownership structure, jurisdiction, address and administrative registration details are unchanged. The reason for this move is to bring our product and brand name into alignment, reducing confusion and providing clarity to customers, partners and other parties about the operator of the service.

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Gradual removal of port forwarding from the IVPN service

By IVPN Staff | Posted on June 29, 2023

Protecting the interest of our customers and ensuring the stability of the service have been key principles for IVPN since starting our operations more than ten years ago. To keep delivering on these promises, we have made the decision to gradually phase out the port forwarding feature from the IVPN Pro plan.

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IVPN infrastructure security audit concluded

By Nick Pestell | Posted on March 15, 2023

We’re pleased to announce that an independent security audit of the new IVPN gateway infrastructure has concluded. We recently decided it was necessary to upgrade our VPN gateway servers to a major new OS version which included many configuration changes.

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IVPN infrastructure is ready for 5th annual security audit

By Nick Pestell | Posted on December 28, 2022

In-line with our commitment to perform an annual security audit of IVPN systems, we have commissioned the independent security auditing organisation Cure53 to conduct a security audit at the end of February 2023. We aim to publish the results of the audit no later than April 2023.

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