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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. Continua a leggere

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. Continua a leggere

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. Continua a leggere

Version 57 of the Mullvad client is now available for download. Continua a leggere

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. Continua a leggere

Version 56 of the Mullvad client is now available for download. Continua a leggere

Version 55 of the Mullvad client is now available for download. Continua a leggere

A few days ago Perfect Privacy presented a vulnerability that affects many VPN providers offering port forwarding for their customers. According to their post five of the nine tested VPN providers were vulnerable to this attack. Continua a leggere

Today we release version 54 of the Mullvad client Continua a leggere

It has recently come to our attention that the DNS resolution mechanism in Windows 8 and newer can potentially leak DNS queries outside of the VPN tunnel. In these versions of Windows, DNS queries are sent to all interfaces simultaneously. Even if the tunnel is the default gateway, all other interfaces will also send out the same DNS query outside of the tunnel. Continua a leggere