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Short Bytes: If you want to share files and folders anonymously, you can do so over the Tor network using OnionShare. This simple to use application lets you transfer files of any size. You can even monitor the download progress of the file. There are a number of ways using which you can share files […]
Short Bytes: Researchers from the Princeton University, Karlstad University, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology have published a paper which brings to light the use of DNS traffic of the Tor network to initiate website fingerprinting attacks and reveal the identity of a Tor user. People have started to believe that Tor is losing its […]
Opera’s free VPN app for Android users comes with security tools and it’s free. Virtual Private Network (VPN) is an essential tool for Internet users to keep their privacy well maintained. Some VPNs come with a price while some for free and of course most users will choose free stuff because who wants to spend […]
Short Bytes: In order to oppose the advent of mass surveillance programs in the UK, an engineer named Gareth Llewelyn demonstrated his OnionDSL system design involving Tor. He plans to become an internet provider through his company Brass Horn Communications. The surveillance melodrama has gathered much attention in the last 5 to 10 years. Whistleblower Edward […]
Tor team has been working hard to stop FBI from hacking the Onion browser and track users — The team is now gearing up to create a hardened version of the Browser! There has been a fair share of work done to decrypt the Tor browser and any of its users who might be connected […]
Short Bytes: TOR Browser 6.0 has been released with multiple changes and improvements. Powered by Firefox 45-ESR, the latest release marks the improvements in video playback with a better support for HTML5. Following the footsteps of Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, TOR’s first stable release in the 6.0 series also removes the support for SHA-1 certificates. […]
Tor Developers go for hack fest to brainstorm about Next Generation of Onion Services ideas A group of Tor developers recently got together in Montreal, Canada and worked on ways to expand and enhance the onion service in different ways. It was the second hack fest of such kind and according to the participants, the […]
Here comes Opera VPN for iPhone and iPad users absolutely free of cost! Opera has done it again. Only a few weeks ago, the company launched free VPN (virtual private network) service for its browser. However, at that time, the service offered limited compatibility options. This time, Opera has launched its iOS app for free […]
Though Facebook is known for privacy invasion and selling off personal data of its users to third parties but on Tor, there are more than one million active users of the social media giant. Two years back, Facebook added TOR support to its network of browsers and it seems that the gamble is paying off big time. […]
Anonabox devices blend Tor and VPN together to provide users with utmost anonymity on the Internet Anonabox, a hardware company focused on providing internet security and privacy for users has announced the launch of an array of innovative, small-sized new devices, which have been designed primarily to help internet users remain anonymous while surfing the net. These […]
Need Secure Web Access Everywhere without Getting Identified? Avira’s Phantom VPN may help! Avira is known for developing the very popular, award-winning software Avira Antivirus and it seems the company has been striving to provide web users a secure environment over the web space so that their privacy is not violated nor are their computers. The […]
Here are 7 activities that users should avoid doing on the Internet The Internet is a wonderland. It is a place where everything from the birth of the universe to the Miley Cyrus’s twerking is available with just a few clicks of your mouse! If a man from as late as 1980 time traveled to […]
An unmodified default setting in Apache Web Servers revealed crucial details related to TOR traffic that passed through that server. It is a well-known fact that the hidden areas (or underworld) of the Internet such as The Dark Web can only be accessed through specialized services like I2p or Tor because these services are restricted […]
PrivaTegrity communication network provides secure communication platform and Anonymity — Maybe better than Tor. A new anonymous communication network by the name of PrivaTegrity has been launched by renowned encryption specialist David Chaum. The network achieves same connection speed as Tor but provides better protection against cryptanalysis techniques. According to the encryption specialist, PrivaTegrity addresses as […]
FBI has taken down a site involved in Child pornography through some hacking techniques that have never been used in the history of the law enforcement. In October last year, FBI hacked Tor browser and caught thousands of paedophiles. Now, a website by the name of “Playpen” registered in August 2014 for the purpose of […]
Tor would soon be launching a bounty program which would reward any person who finds a vulnerability in one of the most popular anonymity programs these days. This was announced during “State of the Onion” talk at Chaos Communication Congress, an art, politics, and security conference that is held annually in Hamburg, Germany. “We are […]
Tor has hired a former Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) executive director to lead its project that is aimed for making the cyber world lot more secure. Tor’s interim executive director, in a blog post, wrote: Shari Steele was selected in part for her experience in growing non-profits and “will be especially valuable as we continue […]
MIT researchers claim they have developed “Vuvuzela” SMS Text Messaging System which is way more secure than Tor and provides guaranteed untraceable communication. The researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a messaging system that is, even more, secure than Tor and in reality, can create anonymous connections — Earlier this year, MIT and Qatar […]
The government of France is in discussions on blocking Tor anonymity network and also the shared and free wifi network during a state of emergency. These proposals may be laid down in 2 pieces of legislation, one state of emergency and other in relation to counter-terrorism. According to the documents, the reason for blocking wifi in […]
Researchers have found a vulnerability in VPN networks that could allow hackers or scammers to access real IPs of the users. Though, for the vulnerability to actually work there are some special conditions that are needed to be fulfilled but for hackers that are not something difficult. What researchers found was if a VPN provider […]
Short Bytes: The Tor Project has announced the release of the beta version of its Tor Messenger that allows you to chat anonymously over the Tor network. Built over Mozilla’s Instantbird platform, the Tor Messenger can be used by Windows, Mac and Linux users. With its motto of anonymity and security by default, The Tor […]