The Tor Project has joined with HackerOne to launch a public bug bounty program aimed at finding vulnerabilities which could compromise the anti-surveillance network. The Tor network is a system of ...

The Internet is not a secure place for exchanging information. There are many prying eyes on you trying to get a piece of your secret information. In this era of free-flowing data, most of us use the ...

With 2.5 million daily users, the Tor network is the world's most popular system for protecting Internet users' anonymity. Researchers have now demonstrated a vulnerability in Tor's design. They show ...

The Tor network is designed to cloak its users with powerful location- and identity-masking technology as they use the Internet. It’s no surprise, then, that eavesdroppers regularly try to pierce that ...

Malware writers are increasingly considering the Tor anonymity network as an option for hiding the real location of their command-and-control (C&C) servers, according to researchers from security firm ...

Online privacy projects come and go. But as the anonymity software Tor approaches its tenth year online, it's grown into a powerful, deeply-rooted privacy network overlaid across the internet. And a ...

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 ...

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.

Security researchers have identified a botnet controlled by its creators over the Tor anonymity network. It’s likely that other botnet operators will adopt this approach, according to the team from ...

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 ...

The U.S. National Security Agency has successfully undermined anonymity in the Tor network, according to newly released documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Tor is a technology ...

French officials are mulling over ways to tighten surveillance and encryption controls online in the aftermath of the devastating terrorist attacks on Paris last month. Local newspaper Le Monde ...