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,...

Tor Browser 4.5 - 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...

Tor 'buffers.c' Denial of Service Vulnerability

Tor The Onion Router is a second-generation implementation of onion routing, primarily used for anonymous access to the Internet. A denial of service vulnerability exists in Tor. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to crash an application and cause a denial of service...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : tor (MDVSA-2015:205)

Updated tor packages fix security vulnerabilities : disgleirio discovered that a malicious client could trigger an assertion failure in a Tor instance providing a hidden service, thus rendering the service inaccessible CVE-2015-2928. DonnchaC discovered that Tor clients would crash with an...

Tor-Based Dark Web Email Service Targeted by Government Spies

The administrator of the popular Darknet email service, SIGAINT, is warning its users that the email service has become a target of a suspected law enforcement agency who tried to compromise it. About a week ago, SIGAINT has been targeted by an attacker who tried to hack the service by using near...

Fedora 22 : tor-0.2.5.12-1.fc22 (2015-5890)

Update to upstream release 0.2.5.12. Update to upstream release 0.2.5.11. 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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: tor-0.2.5.12-1.fc22

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 21 : tor-0.2.5.12-1.fc21 (2015-5729)

Update to upstream release 0.2.5.12. 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 703...

Fedora Update for tor FEDORA-2015-5729

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...

Fedora Update for tor FEDORA-2015-5732

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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: tor-0.2.5.12-1.fc20

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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: tor-0.2.5.12-1.fc21

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...

New Dark Web Marketplace Offers Zero-Day Exploits to Hackers

Hackers have sold secrets of zero-day exploits in the underground Dark Web marketplace such as the Silk Road and its various successors for years, and now a new deep web marketplace has appeared that offers anonymity protection to its sellers. A new Dark Web market, called "TheRealDeal," has open...