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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Quantum computing poses a threat to VPN security due to its potential to break traditional encryption algorithms much faster. In an attempt to mitigate this risk and provide quantum resistance, a PresharedKey (PSK) is now used in addition to existing encryption.
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IVPN AntiTracker is an optional feature of the VPN service that improves privacy protection by blocking requests from unwanted trackers and ads. Before today, AntiTracker operated with one blocklist option - OISD Big. With AntiTracker Plus we introduce ten different blocklist options to choose from:
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When using Apple services on iOS 16+, a VPN connection does not fully protect your privacy against Apple. Even with an active VPN connection and kill switch enabled, traffic from your iOS 16+ device to Apple servers can leak outside the VPN tunnel and expose your local IP address to Apple.
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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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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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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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Today we’re launching our new SOCKS5 proxy service, available on all IVPN servers. This enables multiple new features but I feel the most exciting is the ability to configure individual apps (or browser tabs!) to route their traffic through a different VPN server than the one you are connected to.
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