Onion Services Security Scan: OnionScan

OnionScan is a free and open source tool for investigating the Dark Web. For all the amazing technological innovations in the anonymity and privacy space, there is always a constant threat that has no effective technological patch – human error. Whether it is operational security leaks or softwar...

Silk Road 2.0 Dark-Web Admin Pleads Guilty

An admin of Silk Road 2, named Brian Farrell, who helped maintain the notorious dark web site by providing customer and technical support, approving and suspending vendors, and promoting staff members, has pleaded guilty and could face 8 years in prison. The 28-year-old man, who used the moniker...

FBI Mum on How it Hacked Tor Browser

As Apple’s attorneys mull over their legal options for having the FBI explain how it hacked Syed Farook’s iPhone, a separate case playing out involving the security service and the anonymity software Tor may have a hand in predicting the outcome. According to a court filing earlier this week, the...

The FBI against the judges command: declined to use the Tor browser vulnerability code-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Last month, the FBI was ordered disclosure used to attack the dark web child pornography website single visitors single full version malicious code. To make this decision of judge Robert J. Bryan, he expressed his understanding of the FBI what exactly is how to caught the accused is a very fair...

Tor: Use-after-free during XML transformations (MFSA-2016-27)

Hello, I'm not sure how to understand the rules regarding "Bonus over Base Bounty/Mozilla Bounty for code execution exploits". Are vulnerabilities affecting Firefox ESR 38.7 covered by this section? If yes, you may be interested by MFSA 2016-27 aka CVE-2016-1964:...

FBI is fighting back against Judge's Order to reveal TOR Exploit Code

Last month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI was ordered to reveal the complete source code for the TOR exploit it used to hack visitors of the world’s largest dark web child pornography site, PlayPen. Robert J. Bryan, the federal judge, ordered the FBI to hand over the TOR browser exploit...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: torbrowser-launcher-0.2.4-1.fc24

Tor Browser Launcher is intended to make Tor Browser easier to install and use for GNU/Linux users. You install torbrowser-launcher from your distribution's package manager and it handles everything else: Downloads and installs the most recent version of Tor Browser in your lan guage and for your...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: torbrowser-launcher-0.2.4-1.fc22

Tor Browser Launcher is intended to make Tor Browser easier to install and use for GNU/Linux users. You install torbrowser-launcher from your distribution's package manager and it handles everything else: Downloads and installs the most recent version of Tor Browser in your lan guage and for your...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: torbrowser-launcher-0.2.4-1.fc23

Tor Browser Launcher is intended to make Tor Browser easier to install and use for GNU/Linux users. You install torbrowser-launcher from your distribution's package manager and it handles everything else: Downloads and installs the most recent version of Tor Browser in your lan guage and for your...

Adversary Resistant Computing Platform: SubgraphOS

Subgraph OS is an adversary resistant computing platform. The main purpose of Subgraph OS is to empower people to communicate, share, and collaborate without fear of surveillance and interference. What this means in practical terms is that users of Subgraph OS can safely perform their day-to-day...

Through the mouse scroll wheel to move the data to obtain the Tor browser anonymous user fingerprint-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Through the Internet The Secret ability to communicate for different political molecules and radicals is very important. Then again, almost everyone will care about on the network, privacy issues. Although the Tor network itself provides the user with a high privacy level, so most people are almo...

OnionCat - An Anonymous VPN-Adapter (P2P layer 3 VPN based on Tor or I2P)

OnionCat is a VPN-adapter which allows to connect two or more computers or networks through VPN-tunnels. It is designed to use the anonymization networks Tor or I2P as its transport, hence, it provides location-based anonymity while still creating tunnel end points with private unique IP addresse...

Locky Ransomware Now Part Of Massive Spam Attack

Researchers are tracking a massive spam campaign pelting inboxes with Locky ransomware downloaders in the form of JavaScript attachments. The huge spike, reported by security firm Trustwave, represents an extraordinary uptick in the attempted distribution of the Locky ransomware. Trustwave said...

On FBiOS, Tor, Operation Blockbuster, and RSA 2016

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week including the ongoing FBiOS battle, a judge’s confirmation that the DoD funded research to uncloak Tor users, and news surrounding Operation Blockbuster. They also preview next week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco, Calif. Download: Music ...

Judge Confirms CMU Paid to Break Tor

A U.S. district court judge has confirmed what has probably been the worst-kept secret in security, that Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute was indeed contracted by the Department of Defense to study how to break Tor anonymity. A motion to compel discovery filed by Brian...

Judge Confirms Government Paid CMU Scientists to Hack Tor Users for FBI

Everything is now crystal clear: The security researchers from Carnegie Mellon University CMU were hired by the federal officials to discover a technique that could help the FBI Unmask Tor users and Reveal their IP addresses as part of a criminal investigation. Yes, a federal judge in Washington...

Ricochet — Most Secure Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Messenger that Sends No Metadata

There are several encrypted messaging apps for mobile and desktop platforms that shipped with "The Most Secure" tagline but ends up in de-anonymizing the real identity of its users in some or the other way. In fact, very few encrypted messaging apps available today deal with the core problem of...

How Just Opening an MS Word Doc Can Hijack Every File On Your System

If you receive a mail masquerading as a company's invoice and containing a Microsoft Word file, think twice before clicking on it. Doing so could cripple your system and could lead to a catastrophic destruction. Hackers are believed to be carrying out social engineering hoaxes by adopting...

Locky Ransomware Borrows Tricks from Dridex

It’s been difficult to keep track of all the different strains of ransomware that have plagued users over the last year or two. Unlike many of them the latest to grab headlines is spreading through a decidedly old school vector: document-based macros. Named Locky, the ransomware appears to borrow...

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...