When people use online security mechanisms, they do so for a variety of reasons. In some cases, different mechanisms are even combined with each other. For example, when a VPN connection is used in ...

You probably know about the digital anonymity service Tor, but for whatever reason you may not actually use it. Maybe between the nodes, traffic rerouting, and special onion URLs it seems too ...

TOR-based botnets are not a new trend and were already being discussed a few years ago at Defcon 18 (“Resilient Botnet Command and Control with Tor”). But in the last year we’ve been able to confirm ...

The Tor anonymity network has generated controversy almost constantly since its inception almost two decades ago. Supporters say it’s a vital service for protecting online privacy and circumventing ...

Latest secret documents provided by Edward Snowden and published by Guardian show that National Security Agency has been trying to break through online anonymity provided by popular tool. Ed is a many ...

Philipp Winter is a member of the Tor Project. There are more than 865 encryption tools in use worldwide, all addressing different aspects of a common problem. People want to protect information: hard ...

Computer scientists have devised an attack on the Tor privacy network that in certain cases allows them to deanonymize hidden service websites with 88 percent accuracy. Such hidden services allow ...

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