Behind the Scenes of The Crypto Project

When a small group of activists announced the debut of The Crypto Project earlier this year, for many, ahem, mature, security and privacy advocates it brought to mind memories of the original cypherpunk movement that began in the 1990s and that group’s seminal efforts to encourage the use of stro...

DDoS Attack Using Google Plus Servers

A Security expert at Italian security firm AIR Sicurezza Informatica has claimed that Google's servers vulnerability allows a hacker to exploit the search giant's bandwidth to launch a distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack on any targeted server. On the IHTeam Security Blog , the author of th...

Facebook : 'No more anonymous on Internet'

Facebook : 'No more anonymous on Internet' The sister of Facebook CEO , Randi Zuckerberg wants to put an end to online anonymity.Fcaebook wants to force people to use their real names on Profiles. Randi Zuckerberg is Facebook's marketing director, believes users would act much more responsibly on...

Facebook : 'No more anonymous on Internet'

Facebook : 'No more anonymous on Internet' The sister of Facebook CEO , Randi Zuckerberg wants to put an end to online anonymity.Fcaebook wants to force people to use their real names on Profiles. Randi Zuckerberg is Facebook's marketing director, believes users would act much more responsibly on...

LulzSec Calling It Quits

The shadowy hacking group LulzSec has posted a message saying that it is disbanding after just 50 days. The group posted messages to its Twitter account, and a letter to its followers on Pastebin.com, the online file sharing site. In the letter, the group said it was disbanding so that its member...

[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: tor-0.2.1.29-1300.fc13

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-2011-0642

Check for the Version of tor OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for tor FEDORA-2011-0642 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 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 14 Update: tor-0.2.1.29-1400.fc14

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...

Attacking and Defending the Tor Network

BOSTON–The Tor Project has become a vital mechanism for privacy advocates, human rights activists, journalists and others in sensitive positions to evade online censorship and persecution. And while the governments interested in limiting user access to the Internet and controlling content have ha...

Anonymous Hackers Providing Communication Tools For Egyptian People !

"Internet not working, badge cars burning," beatific out one Egyptian. "Today marks a abundant day for Egypt," beatific out another. These letters weren't advancing from adaptable phones or computers, but from an abecedarian radio sending out Morse Code about amidst the anarchy in Egypt. The...

Obama wants Internet ID for Every American !!

Everyone in the UK will already be familiar with this story with the New Labour's plan for biometric identity cards. That plan, which costs billions of pounds and was later shelved by the new coalition government, will now probably never happen in the UK. Now US President Barak Obama wants to...

Fedora Update for tor FEDORA-2010-19159

Check for the Version of tor OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for tor FEDORA-2010-19159 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of...

Privacy Flaw Found in Tor Project !

At the Chaos Computer Club Congress here Tuesday, researchers from the University of Regensburg delivered a new warning about the Tor anonymizer network, a system aimed at hiding details of a computer user's online activity from spying eyes. The attack doesn't quite make a surfer's activity an op...

[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: tor-0.2.1.28-1400.fc14

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 13 Update: tor-0.2.1.28-1300.fc13

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...

[BSA-014] New Tor packages fix potential code execution

Willem Pinckaers discovered that Tor, a tool to enable online anonymity, does not correctly handle all data read from the network. By supplying specially crafted packets a remote attacker can cause Tor to overflow its heap, crashing the process in turn. Arbitrary code execution has not been...

DSA-2136-1 tor - potential code execution

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Hacking Tool Used By Anonymous Could Reveal Users Identity

A new study finds that a tool used to carry out distributed denial of service DDoS attacks on behalf of whistle blower Web site Wikileaks may, itself, leak the identity of those running the software. Researchers from the University of Twente, Netherlands, looked at the Low Orbit Ion Cannon LOIC, ...

Design/Logic Flaw

Google Chrome before 4.0.249.89 attempts to make direct connections to web sites when all configured proxy servers are unavailable, which allows remote HTTP servers to obtain potentially sensitive information about the identity of a client user via standard HTTP logging, as demonstrated by a prox...

DEBIAN-CVE-2010-0383

Tor before 0.2.1.22, and 0.2.2.x before 0.2.2.7-alpha, uses deprecated identity keys for certain directory authorities, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to compromise the anonymity of traffic sources and destinations...