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New Server in Singapore

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Mullvad users can now choose Singapore in the list of countries available for connection. This should improve performance for customers in Asia and the surrounding geographical region. Read more

Mullvad not affected by recent OpenSSL vulnerabilities

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This afternoon OpenSSL published security advisories on eight vulnerabilities. OpenSSL gave advance notice of the upcoming patch last week, so our engineers had ample time to prepare for the worst. After a short investigation we could conclude that Mullvad is not vulnerable. Read more

Yesterday's service disruption due to emergency patching

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Less than 24 hours ago Google disclosed a vulnerability in glibc, a software library used by many Linux programs. The vulnerability likely affects a large portion of the world's servers, can be exploited remotely, and can be used to gain full control of a server. Read more

Working iOS 9 configurations

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As we've reported before, using our old configuration files on iOS 9 will not work as intended. We have now started to provide new configuration files specifically for iOS 9 which supposedly fixes this issue on all those devices. Read more

Version 58 released

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A bug was discovered in version 57 which caused some trouble for users running with the Windows Firewall disabled. This has now been fixed in version 58. Read more

IP exposure via UDP ports

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We have recently become aware of a newly published method for deanonymizing VPN users. For this to work, the user must be running some software that listens to and communicates via a UDP port and either be connecting directly to the internet without a NAT router or be behind a NAT router with port forwarding enabled. Read more