Posts by Nick Pestell

IVPN preparing for 6th annual security audit
IVPN News

IVPN preparing for 6th annual security audit

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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App-based VPN using SOCKS5
Under the Hood

App-based VPN using SOCKS5

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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IVPN apps to undergo security audit for 2022
IVPN News

IVPN apps to undergo security audit for 2022

Last year in March 2021 we published a comprehensive 3rd party audit of our IVPN apps for all platforms (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android). As part of our ongoing commitment to annual audits, we will again be engaging cure53, an independent firm who possess the necessary experience after completing numerous similar projects in the industry.

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IPv6 (over IPv4) available for testing
Releases

IPv6 (over IPv4) available for testing

We now provide the option to receive an IPv6 address when connecting to our servers using WireGuard. This enables those with only an IPv4 address to access the IPv6 Internet. Access to IPv6 to connect to our servers using IPv6 is under development, and not yet included in this update.

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