Tortilla Open Source Anonymous Traffic Routing Tool for Tor

Update: Malware analysts are in a constant cat-and-mouse game with hackers when it comes to studying malicious code behaviors. Researchers handle malware samples gingerly, in a test network away from production machines and away from the Internet. Samples are opened in virtual machines and analys...

Firefox onreadystatechange Event DocumentViewerImpl Use After Free

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

Handling of Encryption, Tor Exposed in Leaked NSA Documents

New top-secret NSA documents released by the Guardian UK newspaper reveal that the United States’ top spy agency can retain encrypted communications for as long as it takes analysts to decrypt the secret messages—even if they’re collected by chance and without a warrant. In addition, the document...

Facebook temporarily blocked access from TOR, but not Intentionally

Tor has become a tool of free expression in parts of the world where citizens can not speak freely against their government. On Tuesday, a number of users have noticed that Facebook is blocking connections from the Tor network. Tor is a free tool that keeps Web browsing sessions private and...

Facebook No Longer Blocking Tor Visitors

UPDATE – Facebook’s automated malware detection system temporarily blocked visitors who use the Tor anonymity service to access the social network after it found someone trying to mass scrape publicly viewable information from Facebook. “A high volume of malicious activity across Tor exit nodes...

Facebook temporarily blocked access from TOR, but not Intentionally

Tor has become a tool of free expression in parts of the world where citizens can not speak freely against their government. On Tuesday, a number of users have noticed that Facebook is blocking connections from the Tor network. Tor is a free tool that keeps Web browsing sessions private and...

FreeBSD : tor -- guard discovery (80af2677-d6c0-11e2-8f5e-001966155bea)

The Tor Project reports : Disable middle relay queue overfill detection code due to possible guard discovery attack %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database : Copyright 2003-2018...

tor -- guard discovery

The Tor Project reports: Disable middle relay queue overfill detection code due to possible guard discovery attack...

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",...