Encryption Software VeraCrypt 1.12 Adds New PIM Feature To Boost Password Security

Encrypting your sensitive data is important. As you may know, CIA... Confidentiality Integrity Availability ...are the essential elements of Information Security. There are a number of tools and methods available out there, but not all encryption tools are same. We are now living in an era where...

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...

How Hacking Team and FBI planned to Unmask A Tor User

The huge cache of internal files recently leaked from the controversial Italian surveillance software company Hacking Team has now revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI purchased surveillance software from the company. The leaked documents contains more than 1 Million internal...

GLSA-201507-02 : Tor: Denial of Service

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201507-02 Tor: Denial of Service Tor does not handle data correctly when specifically crafted data is sent, and also fails to properly verify a descriptor provided by a hidden service directory. Impact : A remote attacker could...

Fedora Update for tor FEDORA-2015-5890

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription...

Tor: Denial of service

Background Tor is an implementation of second generation Onion Routing, a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service. Description Tor does not handle data correctly when specifically crafted data is sent, and also fails to properly verify a descriptor provided by a hidden service...

Tor 'strlcat_chk.c' Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Tor is a second-generation implementation of onion routing, used primarily for anonymous access to the Internet. A remote denial of service vulnerability exists in Tor, which allows remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability by submitting a special request to crash the affected application,...

FBI Says Cryptowall Cost Victims $18 Million Since 2014

In a little more than a year, consumers affected by the Cryptowall ransomware have reported to the FBI more than $18 million in losses related to infections from the malware. Cryptowall is among the group of ransomware families that encrypt the files on victims’ computers and then demands a ranso...

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...

tor-consensus-checker NSE Script

Checks if a target is a known Tor node. The script works by querying the Tor directory authorities. Initially, the script stores all IPs of Tor nodes in a lookup table to reduce the number of requests and make lookups quicker. Script Arguments slaxml.debug See the documentation for the slaxml...

Author Behind Ransomware Tox Calls it Quits, Sells Platform

Earlier this week, when the author behind the crypto-ransomware Locker apologized and released decryption keys for his victims, it seemed like a change of heart, uncharacteristic for an attacker. Now another ransomware creator has also decided to cut his losses and get out of the game – but not...

Facebook Adds PGP Encryption Feature to Email

Facebook announced early Monday that the social network is in the process of adopting OpenPGP encryption and that it will give privacy conscious users the ability to post their public keys on their profile. The feature, which is gradually rolling out to users today, should better lock down messag...

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...

'Tox' Offers Free build-your-own Ransomware Malware Toolkit

"Ransomware" threat is on the rise, but the bad news is that Ransomware campaigns are easier to run, and now a Ransomware kit is being offered by hackers for free for anyone to download and distribute the threat. Ransomware is a type of computer virus that infects a target computer, encrypts thei...

Astoria — Advanced Tor Client Designed to Avoid NSA Attacks

In response to the threat of intelligence agencies like NSA and GCHQ, Security researchers from American and Israeli academics have developed a new advanced Tor client called Astoria specially designed to make eavesdropping harder. Tor The Onion Router is the most popular anonymity network that i...

Tor Browser Detection

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Tails 1.4 - 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 Cloud Shut Down Amid Lack of Support

The Tor Project has shuttered its cloud proxy service citing security vulnerabilities, usability bugs and a lack of resources. Tor offers its users the capacity to surf the Web anonymously, bouncing traffic through a series of relay servers so that no observer at any point can tell where that...

Why Tor Shuts Down its Anonymous Cloud Service?

Why Tor Cloud Project Shuts Down? Yes, you heard that right. The Tor project has announced that it’s closing down its Tor Cloud service that allowed users to donate bandwidth for browsing the web anonymously. The Tor Project is a non-profit organization behind the Tor anonymizing network that...

New Spam Campaign Pushing CTB-Locker Ransomware

A new run of spam messages this week has been spotted dropping CTB-Locker ransomware. CTB-Locker, also known as Critroni, is a fairly new piece of crypto ransomware that encrypts hard drives and demands a ransom paid in Bitcoin to the attackers in exchange for the decryption key. Two days ago,...