FBI reportedly Paid $1 Million to University Researchers for UnMasking Tor Users

The non-profit Tor Project has accused the FBI of paying the security researchers of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) at least $1 Million to disclose the technique they had discovered that could help them…



…Unmask Tor users as well as Reveal their IP addresses as part of a criminal investigation.



As evidence, the Tor Project points to the cyber attack that it discovered last year in

Astoria — Advanced Tor Client Designed to Avoid NSA Attacks

In response to the threat of intelligence agencies like NSA and GCHQ, Security researchers from American and Israeli academics have developed a new advanced Tor client called Astoria specially designed to make eavesdropping harder.



Tor (The Onion Router) is the most popular anonymity network that is intended to allow a user to browse the Internet anonymously via a volunteer network of more

Why Tor Shuts Down its Anonymous Cloud Service?

Why Tor Cloud Project Shuts Down?



Yes, you heard that right. The Tor project has announced that it’s closing down its Tor Cloud service that allowed users to donate bandwidth for browsing the web anonymously.



The Tor Project is a non-profit organization behind the Tor anonymizing network that allows any online user to browse the Internet without the fear of being tracked. And one of its

Tails 1.3 Released, Introduces 'Electrum Bitcoin Wallet'

A new Tails 1.3 has been released with support to a secure Bitcoin wallet. Tails, also known as the 'Amnesic Incognito Live System', is a free security-focused Debian-based Linux distribution, specially designed and optimized to preserve users' anonymity and privacy.



Tails operating system came to light when the global surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden said that he had used it in

Tor Browser 4.0.4 Released

Tor — a privacy oriented encrypted anonymizing service, has announced the launch of its next version of Tor Browser Bundle, i.e. Tor version 4.0.4, mostly supposed to improve the built-in utilities, privacy and security of online users on the Internet.



Tor Browser helps users to browse the Internet in a complete anonymous way. The powerful Tor Browser Bundle, an anonymous web browser