DigiCert Considering Certs for Hidden Services

News broke last week that Facebook had built a hidden services version of its social network available to users browsing anonymously via the Tor Project’s proxy service. Unlike any .onion domain before it, Facebook’s would be verified by a legitimate digital signature, signed and issued by...

Government Requests for Facebook User Data Increasing

Facebook’s latest transparency report shows that U.S law enforcement agencies issued a greater number of total requests for user data related to criminal investigations in the first six months of 2014 than they have over any previous such period. This report, per Justice Department reporting...

Facebook Now Accessible Via Tor Anonymous Network Using .Onion Address

If you are fan of the largest social networking site Facebook, but also want to remain anonymous while using your Facebook account, then there is really a Good news for you. Facebook on Friday began offering a way for security and Privacy conscious users to connect to its social networking servic...

Facebook Creates .Onion Site; Now Accessible Via Tor Network

UPDATE – This story has been updated with commentary from the Tor Project. Facebook announced today that the social network will now be directly available to users as a Tor hidden service. The Tor Project is an Internet-traffic anonymization service that relays user traffic through a number of...

'The Pirate Bay' Co-Founder Found Guilty in Denmark's Largest Hacking Case

The co-founder of The Pirate Bay torrent site Gottfrid Svartholm Warg Anakata and his 21-year-old Danish co-defendant have been found guilty by a Danish court of hacking into systems operated by American IT giant CSC and illegally downloading files. It was the biggest hacking case ever conducted ...

Tor 0.2.5.10 - Anonymity Online (Tor 0.2.3.x is deprecated!)

Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series. It adds several new security features, including improved denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux requires seccomp2. The controller protocol...

TorBirdy - Torbutton for Thunderbird

TorBirdy is Torbutton for Thunderbird, Icedove and related Mozilla mail clients. It may also work with other non-web browser Mozilla programs such as Sunbird. This extension configures Thunderbird to make connections over the Tor anonymity network. Notable changes in this release include: 0.1.3, ...

Researchers Finds Malicious Tor Exit Node Adding Malware to Binaries

A security researcher has identified a Tor exit node that was actively patching binaries users download, adding malware to the files dynamically. The discovery, experts say, highlights the danger of trusting files downloaded from unknown sources and the potential for attackers to abuse the trust...

Malicious Ads on Yahoo, AOL, Trigger CryptoWall Infections

Attackers have been leveraging the FlashPack Exploit Kit to peddle the CryptoWall 2.0 ransomware on unsuspecting visitors to sites such as Yahoo, The Atlantic and AOL. Researchers believe that for about a month the malvertising campaign hit up to 3 million visitors and netted the attackers $25,00...

Privacy Tools — Tor Browser 4.0 and Tails 1.2 Update Released

Tor - Privacy oriented encrypted anonymizing service, has announced the launch of its next version of Tor Browser Bundle, Tor version 4.0, which disables SSL3 to prevent POODLE attack and uses new transports that are intended to defeat the Great Firewall of China and other extremely restrictive...

Tor Browser 4.0 - Everything you need to safely browse the Internet

The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical...

Tails 1.2 - Privacy for anyone anywhere

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-маршрутизатор Anonabox

Tor-маршрутизатор Anonabox задолго до завершения кампании на Кикстартере собрал необходимое число заказов. Более того, устройство стоимостью $45 намного перевыполнило «план». Вместо необходимых $7500 на эту минуту собрано уже $215 000 прим.м99.: сегодня собрано уже $604,386. И это только за первы...

Tor 'Relay Early' Traffic Confirmation Attack Vulnerability (Oct 2014) - Linux

Tor is prone to an information disclosure vulnerability. Copyright C 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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 This program is free software; you...

Tor 'Relay Early' Traffic Confirmation Attack Vulnerability (Oct 2014) - Windows

Tor is prone to an information disclosure vulnerability. Copyright C 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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 This program is free software; you...

EFF Launches New Anti-Surveillance Site

The EFF has launched a new site dedicated to educating users about how to resist pervasive surveillance online, through the promotion of encryption and other tools and the publication of first-person stories from people around the world who have fought surveillance in various ways. The new site, ...

Privacy-focused Tails 1.1.2 Operating System Released

Tails, a Linux-based highly secure Operating System specially designed and optimized to preserve users' anonymity and privacy, has launched its new release, Tails version 1.1.2. Tails, also known as 'Amnesiac Incognito Live System', is a free security-focused Debian-based Linux distribution, whic...

UFONet - DDoS attacks via Web Abuse (XSS/CSRF)

UFONet - is a tool designed to launch DDoS attacks against a target, using 'Open Redirect' vectors on third party web applications, like botnet. See this links for more info: - CWE-601:Open Redirect - OWASP:URL Redirector Abuse Main features: --version show program's version number and exit -v,...

Comcast Calls Reports it Will Terminate Tor Users Inaccurate

Comcast’s damage-control processes continue to get a workout. Weeks after an infamously exasperating exchange went public between a customer service person and a customer wishing to disconnect their service, the mega ISP spent most of the weekend defending itself from charges it was discouraging...

CVE-2014-5751

The Tor Browser the Short Guide aka com.wTorShortUserManual application 0.1 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...