Saturday, October 17, 2015
Version 3.4 of our Windows VPN client has been released. Most important changes: - Added support for lowering MTU dynamically (OpenVPN only): use this if you experience packet loss/slow and unreliable connections with the default settings. It also helps by-passing some speed throttling against VPNs (e.g. in China). - Added "Restore DNS" button which becomes available if you restart the...
Monday, September 28, 2015
Our website ( https://vpn.ac ) is now blocked in China through DNS hijacking, resolving to IPs in South Korea, Azerbaijan and an US DoD IP. The last seems rather an unfortunate coincidence, in case it is a coincidence in the first place. We are currently working on making the wesite fully available through a secondary domain (mirror): https://vpnac.com If you are in China, please use the...
Monday, August 31, 2015
Update (September 14): version 3.3 was rolled out, fixing some minor issues and making some improvements. We also added a Software Changelog page where you can see the details about changes to each version. Version 3.2 of our Windows VPN client has been released. Most important changes: - Improved support for Windows 10, such as the DNS resolution which is broken on Windows 10 (it...
Monday, July 27, 2015
We just changed the maximum allowed simultanous connections for a single VPN account to 6, from 3 initially for standard accounts - and to 3 from 2 initially for the 1 Week trial accounts. The change is into effect immidiately and applies to all VPN accounts (existing and new). Some more details, on the blog .
Friday, July 10, 2015
An OpenSSL vulnerability ( CVE-2015-1793 ) affecting OpenVPN has been announced and we re-built the Windows client to fix OpenVPN. Our servers are not affected, it is only the Windows software built in June, 2015. Download: You can get the latest, full version (3.1) from https://vpn.ac/download/vpn.ac-win.zip or you may download only the updated files from ...
Thursday, May 28, 2015
We are pleased to announce that our VPN client software for Windows has reached version 3.0. Below are the key features and changes: - Added "VPN drop-protection" (commonly known as "kill switch"). (1) - Added DNS leak protection. (2) - Dropped support for OpenVPN Blowfish cipher / changed to AES-128 (3) - Added auto-start on boot and auto-connect on application start. -...
Sunday, April 19, 2015
We finished porting the SecureProxy extension to Firefox (desktop). You can download it here . Important notes: It will not protect against IP leaking through Flash, WebRTC, Java. Disable WebRTC in Firefox: type about:config in the address bar and toggle media.peerconnection.enabled to false . Block Flash: install Flashblock addon . The addon will allow Flash...
Monday, February 2, 2015
A flaw in WebRTC's STUN protocol is affecting VPN users regardless of VPN protocol, and can be used by 3rd parties (eg., websites) to gather sensitive network information about the user connected to a VPN, such as the real IP addresses of all network interfaces. This is a major privacy risk as it would reveal the real IP addresses of affected users connected to VPNs. We covered this issue a...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
We are very excited to announce the release of our new VPN service addition: the SecureProxy extension for Chrome browser. Features: - Encrypts all your web traffic, tunnelling it through our secure gateways. - Works in browser only - no need to tunnel all your Internet data transfers like games, VoIP, Outlook/Thunderbird emails etc. - Works with your...
Friday, December 5, 2014
We are pleased to announce the deployment of our new VPN location in Melbourne, Australia. On a side-note: in the last 3 days we also upgraded bandwidth capacity in Romania, Netherlands (NL 3 location) and Luxembourg. Some more updates are on the way within the next 2 or three weeks.
