The Mullvad Blog

This weekend the U.S. government hijacked over 70 domain names and redirected them to their own servers. As part of our ongoing struggle against censorship Mullvad users are no longer affected by this seizure. The domains work just like before the attack. Read more

The new Firesheep software listens in on wireless networks and automatically hijacks accounts on Facebook, Twitter and other web services. Mullvad provides protection. Read more

Version 24 of the program is now available for download. The main new feature is the ability to use several ports. Read more

We now accept anonymous Bitcoin payments. Read more

It has been discovered that the IPv6 tunneling behaviour in Windows Vista and 7 can cause problems for anonymization. Users of Windows Vista or 7 should upgrade to version 23 which disables the IPv6 tunneling. It can also be disabled by hand. Read more

By popular request we now take the next step beyond the limit raise and get rid of the data transfer limits altogether. Read more

Version 22 of the program is now available for download. It improves error handling and investigation. Read more

Version 19 and 20 wouldn't start on some Windows systems (Runtime Error R6034). Version 21 solves that problem. Read more

The data traffic amount for each paid monthly period is increased to 100 GB. Existing remaining amounts are also doubled. Read more

Version 20 of the program is now available for download. The most significant new feature is the option Block the internet on connection failure. It is an easy way to protect anonymity by blocking access to the internet in case the connection to Mullvad is broken. The traffic destined for the tunnel will be blocked until Disconnect or Quit is selected from the menu or until the connection is reestablished. Read more