The operators of at least one Tor proxy service was recently caught replacing Bitcoin addresses on ransomware ransom payment sites, diverting funds meant to pay for ransomware decrypters to the site's ...
If you seek utmost privacy when surfing the web, the Tor browser is your best bet. This free, open-source browser routes your traffic through multiple volunteer-run servers, scrambling your data and ...
Here's your beginner-friendly explainer on this privacy and security tool for online browsing, and how it works with VPNs. Rae Hodge was a senior editor at CNET. She led CNET's coverage of privacy and ...
Ask any hacker about the best ways to stay anonymous online and they're very likely to mention something called Tor. Tor (a.k.a., The Onion Router) is free software that keeps your online activity ...
The Internet is becoming harder to browse for users of Tor, the anonymity network that provides greater privacy, according to a new study. The blame can be placed largely on those who use Tor, short ...
The CIA has recently been expanding its online communication with the public, and now it’s taking that effort to the deepest corners of the internet. The agency launched a website Tuesday on the Tor ...
The cyberattackers behind the operation have been distributing a malicious version of the Tor Browser, required to access the underbelly of the Internet, for years -- and have included a ...
G.M.H. and his co-founder, University of Utah communications professor Robert W. Gehl, met on the dark-web social network Galaxy. The two avid readers (G.M.H.’s pseudonym is inspired by 19th century ...
About 1.3 million IP addresses—including those used by Google, Yahoo, Craigslist, and Yelp—are turning users of the Tor anonymity network into second-class Web citizens by blocking them outright or ...
Sites on the so-called dark web, or darknet, typically operate under what seems like a privacy paradox: While anyone who knows a dark web site's address can visit it, no one can figure out who hosts ...
The Internet is becoming harder to browse for users of Tor, the anonymity network that provides greater privacy, according to a new study. The blame can be placed largely on those who use Tor, short ...