Posts by Nick Pestell

Annual security audit scheduled for 2026
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Annual security audit scheduled for 2026

Consistent with our commitment to regular independent security audits, we have scheduled our eighth annual security audit with Cure53, to be conducted over the course of two weeks in July. As in previous years, audits target systems and services that have undergone significant updates and where review provides the most value to customers in terms of security and auditability.

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Annual security audit scheduled for 2025
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Annual security audit scheduled for 2025

Consistent with our commitment to regular independent security audits, we have scheduled our seventh annual security audit with Cure53, to be conducted over the course of two weeks in May. As in previous years, audits will target systems and services undergoing significant updates.

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IVPN preparing for 6th annual security audit
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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
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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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