Tor: FBI Paid CMU $1 Million to De-Anonymize Users

More than a year ago, the Tor Project patched its software against a vulnerability being exploited by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, it said, for the purpose of de-anonymizing users of Tor hidden services. Yesterday, Tor Project director Roger Dingledine accused the prominent Pittsbur...

FBI reportedly Paid $1 Million to University Researchers for UnMasking Tor Users

The non-profit Tor Project has accused the FBI of paying the security researchers of Carnegie Mellon University CMU at least $1 Million to disclose the technique they had discovered that could help them… …Unmask Tor users as well as Reveal their IP addresses as part of a criminal investigation. A...

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 Messenger

Tor Project launched its first beta version of Tor Messenger – its long-in-the-works, open source instant messenger client based on Instantbird. The Messenger is designed for both simplicity and privacy by default: It integrates the “Off-the-Record” OTR protocol to encrypt messages and routes 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...

Privatoria — Best VPN Service for Fast, Anonymous and Secure Browsing

PRIVACY – a bit of an Internet buzzword nowadays. Why? Because the business model of the Internet has now become data collection. If you trust Google, Facebook or other Internet giants to be responsible managers of your data, the ongoing Edward Snowden revelations are making it all clear that thi...

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...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201507-02

Gentoo Linux Local Security Checks GLSA 201507-02 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Eero Volotinen Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later ifdescription...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201301-03

Gentoo Linux Local Security Checks GLSA 201301-03 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Eero Volotinen Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: onionshare-0.7.1-1.fc23

OnionShare lets you securely and anonymously share files of any size. It wo rks by starting a web server, making it accessible as a Tor hidden service, and generating an unguessable URL to access and download files. It doesn't requ ire setting up a server on the internet somewhere or using a thir...

Installation of Tor Relays in Libraries Attracts DHS Attention

The Tor Project recently started a program to help libraries install Tor relays as a way to protect the privacy of patrons and other Internet users. The program didn’t get too far, however, as the first library to install a relay had to turn it off after town police officials were contacted by...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: onionshare-0.7.1-1.fc22

OnionShare lets you securely and anonymously share files of any size. It wo rks by starting a web server, making it accessible as a Tor hidden service, and generating an unguessable URL to access and download files. It doesn't requ ire setting up a server on the internet somewhere or using a thir...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: onionshare-0.7.1-1.fc21

OnionShare lets you securely and anonymously share files of any size. It wo rks by starting a web server, making it accessible as a Tor hidden service, and generating an unguessable URL to access and download files. It doesn't requ ire setting up a server on the internet somewhere or using a thir...

Disconnect.me 2.0 Local Root Exploit

Disconnect.me is the search engine entrusted by the Tor Browser. Unfortunately, the Mac OS X client has an LPE to root vulnerability 0day. Original Download = v2.0: https://disconnect.me/premium/mac Archived Download: http://d-h.st/LKqG Disconnect+Desktop.pkg: sha256 =...

openSUSE Security Update : tor (openSUSE-2015-569)

Tor was updated to fix one logging privacy issue. The following issue was fixed : - Malformed hostnames in socks5 requests were written to the log regardless of SafeLogging option CWE-532 boo943362 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in thi...

Disconnect.me Mac OS X Client <= 2.0 - Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Exploit for macOS platform in category local exploits Disconnect.me is the search engine entrusted by the Tor Browser. Unfortunately, the Mac OS X client has an LPE to root vulnerability 0day. Original Download = v2.0: https://disconnect.me/premium/mac Archived Download: http://d-h.st/LKqG...

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...

Disconnect.me Mac OSX Client 2.0 - Local Privilege Escalation

Disconnect.me Mac OSX Client 2.0 - Local Privilege Escalation Disconnect.me is the search engine entrusted by the Tor Browser. Unfortunately, the Mac OS X client has an LPE to root vulnerability 0day. Original Download = v2.0: https://disconnect.me/premium/mac Archived Download: http://d-h.st/LKq...

Attack the onion routing(Tor)and anonymous service to some of the review-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Tor The Onion Router, the onion router's main purpose is to prevent flow through the filter and Sniffer to spy on the user of the communication Privacy, the majority of the Chinese people familiar with it not because it's encrypted, but because it is a multi-layer node could span the Great Wall o...

Whonix v11 - Anonymous Operating System

Whonix is an operating system focused on anonymity, privacy and security. It’s based on the Tor anonymity network, Debian GNU/Linux and security by isolation. DNS leaks are impossible, and not even malware with root privileges can find out the user’s real IP. Whonix consists of two parts: One...