We tasked the Netherlands based security firm Radically Open Security (RoS) with performing the third audit towards our VPN infrastructure.
We invite you to read the final report of our third security audit, concluded in mid-June 2023, with many fixes deployed late June 2023. Further re-tests and a verification pass was performed during July.
Radically Open Security found no information leakage or logging of customer data
RoS discovered 1 High, 6 Elevated, 4 Moderate, 10 Low and 4 info-severity issues during this penetration test.
Server providers threatening to terminate business with Mullvad because some of its users used port forwarding to host contents that meant legal trouble.
Mullvad chose to terminate support for port forwarding in a transparent way and gave clear dates to prepare. This was done instead of selling off their users or collaborating with whatever legal threats they were facing.
I don't like it, but at least I understand their business decision. Even if I took my business elsewhere, they have a solid point on transparency.
Mullvad is a great vpn, one of the best for sure. Unfortunately because they don't support portforwarding the product is not a option for me anymore. I switched to airvpn and am satisfied with it.
I use it for downloading torrents without leaking my IP. If you can't portforward you are limited to downloading torrents. You won't be able to upload, or at the very least your upload speeds will be very slow. If your primary use case is torrents portforwarding is important. It allows you to open a port and be able to upload.
If you read the report there's both context there and also on their site mullvad have commented on the found issues stating either reasons or what they are doing to fix it.
Having a VPS and routing all traffic between VPS and homeserver using wireguard. It's often discussed in selfhosting communities where the admin is behind restrictive firewalls and policies (which means no port forwarding) or cannot afford to reveal their home ``IPs