Maximilian Holm, about Online Privacy
Would you hand your laptop over unattended to a stranger for half an hour? Most people would answer "No" to that question for a variety of reasons. However, every time you visit a website over HTTP, this is essentially what you're doing. If you're ever on a website that does…
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Maximilian Holm, about Online Privacy
What is CherryBlossom? Wikileaks has released a trove of information lately as a part of their Vault 7 leak. The latest leak released on June 15 outlines the terrifying potential of the CIA to compromise almost any commercial router in a project they call CherryBlossom. CherryBlossom allows the CIA or…
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Ruben Rehn, about Status & transparency reports
This is the monthly transparency report for June 2017. OVPN had one planned and two unplanned and service interruptions during the month of June. Summary For the month of June, our VPN servers had an uptime of over 99.5% during the month of June. In total, OVPN encrypted and…
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Ruben Rehn, about Products & features
Arguably the most eye-catching client update has been released! As you'll soon see, our desktop client has received a huge facelift and it’s been a fun but challenging development sprint to make the interface more intuitive and integrated with the website. Shoot us a message at support@ovpn.com…
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Ruben Rehn, about Announcements
With increasing demand outside of Sweden we are pleased to announce that we've decided on three new datacenters during the summer. At the end of July we will launch two new datacenters in the USA, one located in Miami, and the other in Los Angeles. The datacenters will have great…
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Maximilian Holm,
Friday June 16 a DDoS attack of 8 Gbit/s was launched against our datacenter in Stockholm. As of the time of writing, we have mitigated the DDoS attack. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Timeframe for the attack Start date and time: 2017-06-16 13:25 UTC…
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