Tor Botnet Makes Bad Move to Anonymity Network

MEvade, the massive botnet using Tor as a communication protocol, may have moved operations to the network in order to hamper potential takedown efforts, but according to security researchers, the move just served to shine a spotlight on the botnet’s activities. Rather than hide traffic from bots...

Tor Anonymizing network overload caused by Mevade Botnet

Recently, Tor Project Director - Roger Dingledine described a sudden increase in Tor users on the Tor Network after the events related to disclosure of the PRISM surveillance program, Since August 19, 2013, there has been an impressive growth in the number of Tor users. At first, No one knew who ...

Tor Anonymizing network overload caused by Mevade Botnet

Recently, Tor Project Director - Roger Dingledine described a sudden increase in Tor users on the Tor Network after the events related to disclosure of the PRISM surveillance program, Since August 19, 2013, there has been an impressive growth in the number of Tor users. At first, No one knew who ...

Snowden files : NSA can crack almost any Encryption including Tor anonymity network

The spy agencies' activities have gone on for more than a decade. Now we have enough details about how the NSA eavesdrops on the internet, another explosive news has emerged yesterday from the Snowden files that NSA has the ability to decrypt most of anything that is on the internet. They have do...

Snowden files : NSA can crack almost any Encryption including Tor anonymity network

The spy agencies' activities have gone on for more than a decade. Now we have enough details about how the NSA eavesdrops on the internet, another explosive news has emerged yesterday from the Snowden files that NSA has the ability to decrypt most of anything that is on the internet. They have do...

Huge Botnet Found Using Tor Network for Communications

In the wake of the revelations surrounding the NSA’s domestic surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations, security experts said there would likely be a natural uptick in the usage of privacy focused tools such as Tor, PGP and other encryption services. In the case of Tor, there has been...

Penetration Testing Browser Bundle: PenQ

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. Penetration Testin...

Anonymity Tool Tor gains more than 1.2 Million new users since NSA PRISM scandal

Since Snowden came forward with details about the NSA's PRISM program in June, web users concerned about online privacy are increasingly turning toward privacy tools to protect their online data. U.S. Government project PRISM allows the government to tap phone calls, email, and web browsing of an...

Anonymity Tool Tor gains more than 1.2 Million new users since NSA PRISM scandal

Since Snowden came forward with details about the NSA's PRISM program in June, web users concerned about online privacy are increasingly turning toward privacy tools to protect their online data. U.S. Government project PRISM allows the government to tap phone calls, email, and web browsing of an...

On 10th Anniversary 'The Pirate Bay' Releases Its Own uncensored Web Browser 'PirateBrowser'

No matter how much effort an ISP puts in or the government does, censorship always gets a backdoor. One of the biggest Controversial File Sharing site 'The Pirate Bay' is censored in various capacities in some countries around the world, but Pirate Bay is celebrating its 10th birthday in Stockhol...

On 10th Anniversary 'The Pirate Bay' Releases Its Own uncensored Web Browser 'PirateBrowser'

No matter how much effort an ISP puts in or the government does, censorship always gets a backdoor. One of the biggest Controversial File Sharing site 'The Pirate Bay' is censored in various capacities in some countries around the world, but Pirate Bay is celebrating its 10th birthday in Stockhol...

Firefox onreadystatechange Event DocumentViewerImpl Use After Free

This Metasploit module exploits a vulnerability found on Firefox 17.0.6, specifically an use after free of a DocumentViewerImpl object, triggered via an specially crafted web page using onreadystatechange events and the window.stop API, as exploited in the wild on 2013 August to target Tor Browse...

Firefox onreadystatechange Event DocumentViewerImpl Use After Free

This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit Framework web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/framework/ require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 'Firefox...

Tor Users Should Leave Insecure Windows Operating System

In a critical security advisory issued over the weekend, the Tor Project told its users that they should seriously consider migrating away from Microsoft’s Windows operating system and disabling JavaScript. The Tor Project security advisory was a response to revelations on Sunday that an attack h...

Один сервер, Tor и Bitcoin

Всем доброго времени суток. В последнее время достаточно много новостей о Tor и Bitcoin, обе системы в достаточной мере направлены на безопасность и анонимность, однако их преимущества могут одновременно стать и недостатками. Структура Tor не позволяет определять местоположение клиента и сервера,...

Tor Users Hit With Firefox Exploit, But No Large Compromise of Network Seen

The vulnerability in Firefox that was being used to exploit some users of Tor in recent days was fixed in a previous Firefox release and the exploit in circulation only works against people running Firefox 17. Over the weekend, word spread that the exploit was in the wild and that the Tor network...

FBI Used Firefox Exploit to Shutdown Illegal Site Running on Tor Network

TOR is the dark side of the Internet, the so-called dark web, which provides a safe haven to privacy advocates but is also where drugs, assassins for hire and other weird and illegal activities can allegedly be traded. A claimed zero-day vulnerability in Firefox 17 was used by the FBI to identify...

Firefox Zero-Day Exploit used by FBI to shutdown Child porn on Tor Network hosting; Tor Mail Compromised

TOR is the dark side of the Internet, the so-called dark web, which provides a safe haven to privacy advocates but is also where drugs, child pornography, assassins for hire and other weird and illegal activities can allegedly be traded. A claimed zero-day vulnerability in Firefox 17 was used by...

Download Tortilla Tool - Anonymize everything through Tor

Recent disclosures by whistleblower Edward Snowden claiming that internet traffic is being intercepted and used by the Americans in their war on terror, force to re-think about the user's privacy and online anonymity. It has been relatively common knowledge for years that wherever we go on the we...

Download Tortilla Tool - Anonymize everything through Tor

Recent disclosures by whistleblower Edward Snowden claiming that internet traffic is being intercepted and used by the Americans in their war on terror, force to re-think about the user's privacy and online anonymity. It has been relatively common knowledge for years that wherever we go on the we...