tor -- Use-after-free in onion service v2

The Torproject.org reports: TROVE-2017-009: Replay-cache ineffective for v2 onion services TROVE-2017-010: Remote DoS attack against directory authorities TROVE-2017-011: An attacker can make Tor ask for a password TROVE-2017-012: Relays can pick themselves in a circuit path TROVE-2017-013:...

OnionShare - Securely and anonymously share a file of any size

OnionShare lets you securely and anonymously share files of any size. It works by starting a web server, making it accessible as a Tor onion service, and generating an unguessable URL to access and download the files. It doesn't require setting up a server on the internet somewhere or using a thi...

The Tor Project to Beef Up Privacy with Next-Generation of Onion Services

The Tor Project has made some significant changes to its infrastructure by improving the way the 'onion' network protects its users' privacy and security. Since the beginning, the largest free online anonymity network has been helping users browse the web anonymously, and its onion service provid...

Bad Rabbit: New Ransomware Attack Rapidly Spreading Across Europe

A new widespread ransomware attack is spreading like wildfire around Europe and has already affected over 200 major organisations, primarily in Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and Germany, in the past few hours. Dubbed "Bad Rabbit," is reportedly a new Petya-like targeted ransomware attack against...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3993-1] tor security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3993-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff October 06, 2017 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

DEFCON 25

After a few days in Las Vegas and after BlackHat, DEFCON 25 is finally over! It was an amazing time around awesome people. I didn't attend all the talks, but most of the ones I saw were interesting: There's no place like 127.0.0.1 - Achieving reliable DNS rebinding in modern browsers, by Luke...

Dark Web Users Suspect "Dream Market" Has Also Been Backdoored by Feds

By now you might be aware of the took down of two of the largest online dark websites—AlphaBay and Hansa—in what's being called the largest-ever international operation against the dark web's black market conducted by the FBI, DEA Drug Enforcement Agency and Dutch National Police. But the...

Tor Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-14148)

Tor The Onion Router is a second-generation implementation of onion routing, primarily used for anonymous access to the Internet. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the 'relaysendendcellfromedge' function of the hidden services function in versions of Tor prior to 0.3.0.8. An attacker ca...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-0376

The hidden-service feature in Tor before 0.3.0.8 allows a denial of service assertion failure and daemon exit in the connectionedgeprocessrelaycell function via a BEGINDIR cell on a rendezvous circuit...

APT29 Domain Fronting With TOR

Mandiant has observed Russian nation-state attackers APT29 employing domain fronting techniques for stealthy backdoor access to victim environments for at least two years. There has been considerable discussion about domain fronting following the release of a paper detailing these techniques...

APT29 Domain Fronting With TOR

Mandiant has observed Russian nation-state attackers APT29 employing domain fronting techniques for stealthy backdoor access to victim environments for at least two years. There has been considerable discussion about domain fronting following the release of a paper detailing these techniques...

ProtonMail Gets Own Tor-Accessible .Onion Hidden Service

Users of the encrypted email service ProtonMail looking for an extra layer of security now have the option of accessing their inbox directly through the Tor network. ProtonMail, originally developed by CERN and MIT scientists, announced Thursday it had added its own Tor hidden service. According ...

Open Source Privacy Enhancing iOS Web Browser: Onion Browser

Open Source Privacy Enhancing iOS Web Browser Onion Browser is a free web browser for iPhone and iPad that encrypts and tunnels web traffic through the Tor network , with extra features to help you browse the internet privately. Features & Benefits Internet access is tunneled through the Tor...

Paragon Initiative Enterprises: Incorrect detection of onion URLs

Several places have incorrect code to detect if URL point to .onion domain tor hidden server: The following regexes: 1. ^https://^/:+.onion:?:0-9+ 2. ^https?://^/+.onion which is used in: https://github.com/paragonie/airship/blob/0e9289553cdc538556d362faaee63be6cc534a0c/src/Engine/Hail.phpL223...

Tor Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-10364)

Tor The Onion Router is a second-generation implementation of onion routing, primarily used for anonymous access to the Internet. Versions of Tor prior to 0.2.8.9 contain a security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to crash a tor client, service, or tor organization...

Here's How Riffle Anonymity Network Protects Your Privacy better than Tor

Online privacy is an Internet buzzword nowadays. If you are also concerned about the privacy of your web surfing, the most efficient way is to use TOR – a free software that lets users communicate anonymously by hiding their actual location from snoopers. Although TOR is a great anonymous network...

More than 1 million People now access Facebook Over Tor Network

In Brief Facebook has hit another Milestone: More than 1 MILLION people, or you can say privacy conscious, are accessing Facebook over TOR. Facebook proudly announced today that, this month, for the first time, the people connected to the anonymous version of Facebook that's accessible only throu...

The Onion Knights - Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions, Exported ContentProvider vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application The Onion Knights published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Protecting Personal Information: Freedom Box

FreedomBox is a personal server that protects your privacy. It hosts on demand applications such as file sharing, shared calendaring, instant messaging, secure voice conference calling, blog and wiki. FreedomBox is a free software stack, a subset of the Debian universal operating system, that can...

Deep Web Search Engines to Explore the Hidden Internet

Do you know: There is a vast section of the Internet which is hidden and not accessible through regular search engines and web browsers. This part of the Internet is known as the Deep Web, and it is about 500 times the size of the Web that we know. What is DEEP WEB? Deep Web is referred to the da...