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Here’s What Tor’s Data Looks Like as It Flows Around the World

posted onJanuary 18, 2016
by l33tdawg

For a tool that’s meant to serve as a cloak of online anonymity, Tor is surprisingly transparent. The non-profit Tor project whose software powers its network of thousands of volunteer proxy computers also publishes a frequently updated collection of data about the location and bandwidth of those privacy-enhancing machines on desks and in datacenters around the world. Now a data visualization company has assembled that data into an interactive graphic, beautifully capturing the Tor network’s complexity and scale.

Tor gains extra security as .onion becomes Special-Use Domain Name

posted onSeptember 14, 2015
by l33tdawg

Tor -- The Onion Router -- is used as a way of browsing the web (more) anonymously. Most well-known for providing access to what has become known as the Dark Web, Tor has faced competition from other secure browsing systems such as HORNET. But now it is set to benefit from key changes that will improve security and have further implications.

Researchers Unveiled a New, Serious Vulnerability In Tor

posted onJuly 30, 2015
by l33tdawg

Journalists and citizens living under repressive regimes alike depend on the encrypted Tor browser to surf the web anonymously. But in certain cases, an attacker can figure out which dark web site a user is trying to access by passively monitoring Tor traffic, and even reveal the identity of servers hosting sites on the Tor network.

Tor Cloud shut down

posted onMay 11, 2015
by l33tdawg

The Tor Project has pulled the plug on its cloud service, citing a lack of interest in fixing bugs in the platform.

The Tor Cloud was devised by the not-for profit developer of privacy and censorship circumvention tools in 2011. It was envisioned as an easy way to deploy bridges in the Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) infrastructure, to allow users to bypass internet censorship.

The project was a partnership between the Tor Project and consultancy Expression Tech, which aimed to assist media organisations working in repressive or post-conflict societies.

Tor Browser 4.5 delivers refreshed UI, privacy silder and Windows shortcut

posted onApril 28, 2015
by l33tdawg

TOR has had a major upgrade to stable version 4.5 of its dedicated browser.

Tor, which is a redundant abbreviation for The Onion Router, allows users to stay anonymous online and make visits that cannot be traced back to the individual through a series of relays which encrypt the credentials over and over again.

Tor 0.2.6.7 Fixes Security Issues That Could Be Used by Attackers to Crash Hidden Services and Clients

posted onApril 7, 2015
by l33tdawg

A new version of the popular Tor software that enables anonymous communication between computers around the world was released today, April 7, in order to fix two security issues discovered in the previous versions.

Tor 0.2.6.7 is a very important update, as it fixes two security issues that could be used by an attacker to either crash hidden services or clients visiting the respective hidden services.

Silk Road, other Tor darknet sites may have been "decloaked" through DDoS

posted onNovember 10, 2014
by l33tdawg

Last week’s takedown of Silk Road 2.0 wasn’t the only law enforcement strike on "darknet" illicit websites being concealed by the Tor Project’s network of anonymizing routers. A total of 410 .onion pages on at least 27 different sites, some of which sell everything from drugs to murder-for-hire assassins, were shut down as part of Operation Onymous—a joint operation between16 member nations of Europol, the FBI, and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Hackers have compromised the once anonymous Tor network

posted onJuly 31, 2014
by l33tdawg

The Tor anonymous encryption service offers internet users a way to surf the web with anonymity and prides itself on the level of security it offers. Well it looks as though the network was compromised earlier this year along with some user data, according to a recent Tor developer blog post. It also said that those who used Tor between early February and July 4th of this year "should assume" they have been in some way affected by the attack.

Black Hat presentation on TOR cancelled

posted onJuly 23, 2014
by l33tdawg

A presentation on a low-budget method to unmask users of a popular online privacy tool, TOR, will no longer go ahead at the Black Hat security conference early next month.

The talk was nixed by the legal counsel with Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute after a finding that materials from researcher Alexander Volynkin were not approved for public release, according to a notice on the conference’s website.