Tor Browser 4.0.4 Released

Tor — a privacy oriented encrypted anonymizing service, has announced the launch of its next version of Tor Browser Bundle, i.e. Tor version 4.0.4, mostly supposed to improve the built-in utilities, privacy and security of online users on the Internet. Tor Browser helps users to browse the Intern...

Russian Government Offers $111,000 For Cracking Tor Anonymity Network

The Russian government is offering almost 4 million ruble which is approximately equal to $111,000 to the one who can devise a reliable technology to decrypt data sent over the Tor, an encrypted anonymizing network used by online users in order to hide their activities from law enforcement,...

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 ...

[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...

Tor: Remote heap-based buffer overflow

Background Tor is an implementation of second generation Onion Routing, a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service. Description Tor contains a heap-based buffer overflow in the processing of user or attacker supplied data. No additional information is available. Impact Successful...

Multiple tor distributed anonymizing service security vulnerabilities

Log entries spoofing, integer overflows, DoS...

tor anonymizing communication service information leak

Client can view arbitrary memory content...

anonymizers+java+javascript.txt

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 20:14:49 +0200 From: Patrick Oonk To: [email protected] Subject: Serious security holes in web anonimyzing services From: "Richard M. Smith" Subject: Serious security holes in Web anonymizing services Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 19:23:25 -0400 Newsgroups: comp.security.misc...