[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...

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...