Defeating Internet Blocking With Lahana VPN-Tor Bridge

As the anti-government protests in Turkey have escalated in the last few days, privacy activists and security experts have begun working on ways to help people inside Turkey get reliable access to the Internet and privacy tools such as Tor. A security researcher over the weekend released a new to...

[PenQ] The Security Testing Browser Bundle

PenQ is an open source Linux based penetration testing browser bundle we built over Mozilla Firefox. It comes pre-configured with security tools for spidering, advanced web searching, fingerprinting, anonymous browsing, web server scanning, fuzzing, report generating and more. PenQ is configured ...

[AttackVector Linux] Linux distro for anonymized penetration based on Kali and TAILS

AttackVector Linux is a new distribution for anonymized penetration and security. It is based on Kali and TAILS, which are both based on Debian. While Kali requires a modified kernel for network drivers to use injection and so forth, the Tor Project's TAILS is designed from the bottom up for...

Police in Japan ask ISPs to start blocking Tor network

Tor is a web service that allows users to surf the Internet, use IM, and other services while keeping themselves completely anonymous, but Japan's National Police Agency wants ISPs to block access to Tor if users are found to have abused it. The push by Japanese authorities is because they're...

Police in Japan ask ISPs to start blocking Tor network

Tor is a web service that allows users to surf the Internet, use IM, and other services while keeping themselves completely anonymous, but Japan's National Police Agency wants ISPs to block access to Tor if users are found to have abused it. The push by Japanese authorities is because they’re...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : tor (MDVSA-2013:132)

Updated tor package fixes security vulnerabilities : Tor before 0.2.2.34, when configured as a client or bridge, sends a TLS certificate chain as part of an outgoing OR connection, which allows remote relays to bypass intended anonymity properties by reading this chain and then determining the se...

Fedora 17 : tor-0.2.3.25-1702.fc17 (2013-3773)

Significant package cleanup, including : - remove dependency on fedora-usermgmt - merge tor-core, tor-systemd and torify into previously empty tor package - remove unnecessary /var/run/tor - disallow group read for /var/log/tor - use --defaults-torrc as recommended by upstream - increase...

Fedora Update for tor FEDORA-2013-3773

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...

Fedora Update for tor FEDORA-2013-3773

Check for the Version of tor OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for tor FEDORA-2013-3773 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of t...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: tor-0.2.3.25-1702.fc17

Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system. Applications connect to the local Tor proxy using the SOCKS protocol. The local proxy chooses a path through a set of relays, in which each relay knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down the...

Fedora Update for tor FEDORA-2013-3434

Check for the Version of tor OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for tor FEDORA-2013-3434 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of t...

Fedora Update for tor FEDORA-2013-3434

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...

Fedora 18 : tor-0.2.3.25-1802.fc18 (2013-3434)

Update for security and massive revamp of spec Fix outstanding security issues, plus package cleanup torify subpackage should depend on torsocks not tsocks Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: tor-0.2.3.25-1802.fc18

Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system. Applications connect to the local Tor proxy using the SOCKS protocol. The local proxy chooses a path through a set of relays, in which each relay knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down the...

Fedora Update for tor FEDORA-2012-14650

Check for the Version of tor OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for tor FEDORA-2012-14650 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of...

Fedora 17 : tor-0.2.2.39-1700.fc17 (2012-14650)

. . Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, In...

Fedora Update for tor FEDORA-2012-14650

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: tor-0.2.2.39-1700.fc17

Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system. Applications connect to the local Tor proxy using the SOCKS protocol. The local proxy chooses a path through a set of relays, in which each relay knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down the...

GLSA-201301-03 : Tor: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201301-03 Tor: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Tor. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition or...

Tor: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Tor is an implementation of second generation Onion Routing, a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Tor. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could cause a...