Identifying users who access Tor hidden services—websites that are only accessible inside the Tor anonymity network—is easier than de-anonymizing users who use Tor to access regular Internet websites.

A number of messaging services continue to tout their security as assured through encryption. But in a world where some of those services, like Telegram, flip-flop on their privacy policies, ...

Rochester Institute of Technology cybersecurity professor Billy Brumley is helping shed light on dark corners of the internet. Brumley and a multidisciplinary group of researchers from around the ...

The Tor Project has explained its recent decision to remove multiple network relays that represented a threat to the safety and security of all Tor network users. Tor network relays are routing points ...

The Tor Project is attempting to assure users that the network is still safe after a recent investigative report warned that law enforcement from Germany and other countries are working together to ...

German news outlets reported that police were able to de-identify a Tor user involved in a child sexual abuse network, but the Tor Project says the techniques used appear to rely on an outdated Tor ...

Platforms hope by combining, their reach can be expanded, and that the merger ‘will strengthen both organizations' ability to protect people worldwide from surveillance and censorship’. CISOs of ...

Security researchers have found a new backdoor program that allows attackers to hijack Mac systems and control them over the Tor network. The new malware has been dubbed Backdoor.MAC.Eleanor by ...

The Tor Project is seeking to allay fears that its veil of privacy has been pierced. A new report on German efforts to remove illicit content from the Tor network spiked fears that law enforcement had ...

Threat actors are targeting cloud-based networks by exploiting misconfigured Docker APIs to gain access to containerized environments, then using the anonymity of Tor to hide their deployment of ...

The merger of two popular open-source communities could sharpen the focus on bolstering online privacy and web-surfing anonymity. The Amnesic Incognito Live System, or Tails, and the anonymity network ...