Judge Confirms Government Paid CMU Scientists to Hack Tor Users for FBI

Everything is now crystal clear: The security researchers from Carnegie Mellon University CMU were hired by the federal officials to discover a technique that could help the FBI Unmask Tor users and Reveal their IP addresses as part of a criminal investigation. Yes, a federal judge in Washington...

Nipe - Script To Redirect All Traffic From The Machine To The Tor Network

Script to redirect all the traffic from the machine to the Tor network. + AUTOR: Vinicius Gouvea + EMAIL: [email protected] + BLOG: https://medium.com/viniciusgouvea + GITHUB: https://github.com/HeitorG + FACEBOOK: https://fb.com/viniciushgouvea Installing: git clone...

France will not Ban Public Wi-Fi Or Tor Network, Prime Minister Valls Confirms

Despite the French Ministry of Interior's demands, France will not ban the TOR anonymity network or Free public Wi-Fi as a way to help the law enforcement fight terrorism. French Prime Minister Manual Valls has gone on record saying that a ban on Free public Wi-Fi is "not a course of action...

Carnegie Mellon Says It Was Subpoenaed-And Not Paid-For Research On Breaking Tor

Carnegie Mellon University today implied in a statement that it was served with a subpoena to hand over research related to unmasking the identity of users on the Tor network, and that it was not paid $1 million by the FBI for doing so, as alleged by the Tor Project. The statement, released short...

Tails 1.7 - The Amnesic Incognito Live System

Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity , and helps you to: use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship ; all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the...

Tor Releases Anonymous Instant Messenger. Here's How to Use It

The Tor Project has officially launched the first beta version of Tor Messenger, an open source and Encrypted instant messaging client that works on top of the Tor network. Tor Messenger is designed by keeping both simplicity and privacy in mind. The team claimed that their app encrypts the conte...

ZeroNet - Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network

Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and the BitTorrent network - http://zeronet.io Why? We believe in open, free, and uncensored network and communication. No single point of failure: Site remains online so long as at least 1 peer serving it. No hosting costs: Sites are served by visitors...

Decentralized P2P Websites: ZeroNet

Decentralized P2P websites using Bitcoin crypto and the BitTorrent network ZeroNet uses Bitcoin cryptography and BitTorrent technology to build a decentralized censorship-resistant network. Users can publish static or dynamic websites into ZeroNet and visitors can choose to also serve the website...

How Spies Could Unmask Tor Users without Cracking Encryption

The Onion Router Tor is weeping Badly! Yes, Tor browser is in danger of being caught once again by the people commonly known as "Spies," who's one and only intention is to intrude into others’ network and gather information. A team of security researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technolog...

Cryptowall 3.0 Infections Spike from Angler EK, Malicious Spam

Since the Angler Exploit Kit began in late May spreading Cryptowall 3.0 ransomware, traffic containing the malware has continued to grow, putting more potential victims in harm’s way. Today, the SANS Internet Storm Center reported that Cryptowall 3.0 infections are emanating from not only the...

Silk Road Mastermind Ross Ulbricht Sentenced To Life In Prison

Ross Ulbricht, the alleged founder and mastermind of the infamous online black marketplace Silk Road, has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of narcotics conspiracy, money laundering and other criminal charges. This means the 31-year-old San Francisco man will die behind...

Tor onions-the underlying Protocol of the presence of DoS vulnerability, the Black Market suffer for it-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Two of the the Black Market suffered a severe DoS attack According to the Tor network underground Black Market of Middle Earth the operators revealed that his website recently suffered a serious DoS（denial of service）attack. Coincidentally, 2 0 1 4 years 1 2 months, another Black Market Agora of...

Dangerous 'Vawtrak Banking Trojan' Harvesting Passwords Worldwide

Security researcher has discovered some new features in the most dangerous Vawtrak, aka Neverquest, malware that allow it to send and receive data through encrypted favicons distributed over the secured Tor network. The researcher, Jakub Kroustek from AVG anti-virus firm, has provided an in-depth...

Tor — How to Protect Your Digital Environment?

Are you aware of everything that your users are accessing from your environment? While most of the time, non-work-related Internet browsing is harmless looking at pictures of cats, online shopping, social media, etc. there are some instances where you could be an unknowing and unwilling participa...

Onion.City — Search Engine for Deep Web that Works From Normal Web Browser

There is an entire section of the Internet that you probably don’t see on daily basis, it’s called the "Darknet" or "Deep Web", where all browsing is done anonymously. About a week ago, we reported about the 'Memex' Deep Web Search Engine, a Defense Advance Research Projects Agency DARPA project ...

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht Convicted of All 7 Charges; Faces Life In Prison

A jury has found Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht a.k.a Dread Pirate Roberts guilty on all seven counts and faces Life In Prison for running an underground black market i.e. Silk Road. Ross Ulbricht, a San Francisco 30-year-old web developer was arrested by FBI in a sting operation in October 2013...

New Wave of CTB-Locker/Critroni Ransomware Hitting Victims

There is a new wave of attacks delivering the CTB-Locker or Critroni crypto ransomware, arriving through spam messages with a variety of lures in several different countries. CTB-Locker is one of the newer variants in the crypto ransomware family, a kind of malware that encrypts victims’ hard...

Mozilla Deploying High-capacity Tor Middle Relays

Back in November, Mozilla teamed-up with Tor Project under a new initiative called Polaris, in order to help reduce finite number of Tor connections occurring at the same time by adding high-capacity Tor middle relays to the Tor network, and now the company is ready with its first Tor Middle...

Privoxy Denial of Service Vulnerability

Privoxy is a proxy server with filtering for HTTP and HTTPS protocols, often used in combination with Tor. A denial of service vulnerability exists in Privoxy that allows remote attackers to launch denial of service attacks via unspecified vectors...

Multiple Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Privoxy

Privoxy is a proxy server with filtering for HTTP and HTTPS protocols, often used in combination with Tor. Privoxy suffers from multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities that can be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of a user running an affected application. o...