Paper: NetFlow Data De-Anonymizes Tor Users

Tor Project leaders are trying to rein in concerns about an academic paper describing an end-to-end traffic correlation attack that could be used by a well-funded attacker such as a nation state to de-anonymize traffic on Tor. Executive director Roger Dingledine points out that the researchers...

81% of Tor Users Can be Easily Unmasked By Analysing Router Information

Tor has always been a tough target for law enforcement for years and FBI has spent millions of dollars to de-anonymize the identity of Tor users, but a latest research suggests that more than 81% of Tor clients can be "de-anonymised" by exploiting the traffic analysis software ‘Netflow’ technolog...

OnionDuke APT Malware served through Tor Network

The malicious Russian Tor exit node, which was claimed to be patching binary files, is actually distributing a malware program to launch cyber-espionage attacks against European government agencies. The group behind the rogue Tor exit node had likely been infecting files for more than a year,...

Tor Project Looking for Answers Following Operation Onymous

Officials at the Tor Project are continuing to look for answers following the takedown late last week of hundreds of Tor hidden services, including the popular black market website Silk Road 2.0. In a blog entry yesterday Tor made it clear that it wasn’t entirely sure how or why the services that...

New Mozilla Privacy Initiative to Include High-Capacity Tor Relays

Mozilla is starting a new initiative that the company says is designed to incorporate more privacy enhancing features into Firefox and the other Mozilla products. The project, known as Polaris, involves collaboration with The Tor Project and the Center for Democracy and Technology and will involv...

More than 400 Underground Sites seized by FBI in 'Operation Onymous'

The joint operation by authorities of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and European law enforcement seized Silk Road 2.0, an alternative to the notorious online illegal-drug marketplace last week, and arrested 26-year-old operator Blake Benthall, but that wasn't the end. US and Europe...

​Jeremy Rowley on the Facebook Tor Cert & the Future of PKI

Dennis Fisher talks with Jeremy Rowley of DigiCert about the company’s decision to issue a certificate for Facebook’s .onion site, the challenge of key protection in today’s environment and what the near future holds for PKI. Download: digitalunderground170.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

FBI Seize Silk Road 2.0 Servers; Admin Arrested

The authorities of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation have announced that they have arrested "Silk Road 2.0" operator Blake Benthall, used the alias "Defcon" in California on Wednesday and charged him with conspiracy to commit drug trafficking, computer hacking, money laundering and other...

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...