More than 1 million People now access Facebook Over Tor Network

In Brief
Facebook has hit another Milestone: More than 1 MILLION people, or you can say privacy conscious, are accessing Facebook over TOR.

Facebook proudly announced today that, this month, for the first time, the people connected to the anonymous version of Facebook that's accessible only through the TOR anonymity network exceeded 1 Million – an increase of almost 100% in the past ten

FBI is fighting back against Judge's Order to reveal TOR Exploit Code

Last month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was ordered to reveal the complete source code for the TOR exploit it used to hack visitors of the world’s largest dark web child pornography site, PlayPen.

Robert J. Bryan, the federal judge, ordered the FBI to hand over the TOR browser exploit code so that defence could better understand how the agency hacked over 1,000 computers and if

Judge Confirms Government Paid CMU Scientists to Hack Tor Users for FBI

Everything is now crystal clear:



The security researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) were hired by the federal officials to discover a technique that could help the FBI Unmask Tor users and Reveal their IP addresses as part of a criminal investigation.



Yes, a federal judge in Washington has recently confirmed that the computer scientists at CMU's Software Engineering

Deep Web Search Engines to Explore the Hidden Internet

Do you know: There is a vast section of the Internet which is hidden and not accessible through regular search engines and web browsers.



This part of the Internet is known as the Deep Web, and it is about 500 times the size of the Web that we know.



What is DEEP WEB?



Deep Web is referred to the data which are not indexed by any standard search engine such as Google or Yahoo.



The '

Facebook adds Built-in Tor Support for its Android App

Rejoice for Privacy Lovers!



Facebook today took a surprising move by announcing that it is bringing the free anonymizing software TOR support to its Android app, almost two years after the social network planned to make Facebook available directly over Tor network.



Yes. Believe it or not, the Android version of the popular Facebook application now supports the Tor

France will not Ban Public Wi-Fi Or Tor Network, Prime Minister Valls Confirms

Despite the French Ministry of Interior's demands, France will not ban the TOR anonymity network or Free public Wi-Fi as a way to help the law enforcement fight terrorism.



French Prime Minister Manual Valls has gone on record saying that a ban on Free public Wi-Fi is "not a course of action envisaged," and he is not in favor of banning the TOR anonymity network, either.



Following the

How Spies Could Unmask Tor Users without Cracking Encryption

The Onion Router (Tor) is weeping Badly!



Yes, Tor browser is in danger of being caught once again by the people commonly known as "Spies," who's one and only intention is to intrude into others’ network and gather information.



A team of security researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed digital attacks that can be used to unmask Tor hidden services in

Introducing 93Gbps High-Speed Tor-Like Encrypted Anonymous Network

I think you'll agree with me when I say:



It's quite hard to maintain anonymity on the Internet using the slow Tor network. Or is it?



Well, it turns out, you may soon boost your online anonymity dramatically with the help of a new high-speed anonymity network.



A group of six academics have developed a Tor network alternative for users that allows high-speed anonymous web surfing,

How Hacking Team and FBI planned to Unmask A Tor User

The huge cache of internal files recently leaked from the controversial Italian surveillance software company Hacking Team has now revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) purchased surveillance software from the company.



The leaked documents contains more than 1 Million internal emails, including emails from FBI agent who wanted to unmask the identity of a user of Tor, the

Silk Road Mastermind Ross Ulbricht Sentenced To Life In Prison

Ross Ulbricht, the alleged founder and mastermind of the infamous online black marketplace Silk Road, has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of narcotics conspiracy, money laundering and other criminal charges.



This means the 31-year-old San Francisco man will die behind bars.



With all the seven charges stemming from the creation and operation of the once the

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

Tor-Based Dark Web Email Service Targeted by Government Spies

The administrator of the popular Darknet email service, SIGAINT, is warning its users that the email service has become a target of a suspected law enforcement agency who tried to compromise it.



About a week ago, SIGAINT has been targeted by an attacker who tried to hack the service by using nearly 70 bad Tor exit nodes, one of the service's administrator informed its users via the

Dangerous 'Vawtrak Banking Trojan' Harvesting Passwords Worldwide

Security researcher has discovered some new features in the most dangerous Vawtrak, aka Neverquest, malware that allow it to send and receive data through encrypted favicons distributed over the secured Tor network.



The researcher, Jakub Kroustek from AVG anti-virus firm, has provided an in-depth analysis (PDF) on the new and complex set of features of the malware which is considered to be

Tor — How to Protect Your Digital Environment?

Are you aware of everything that your users are accessing from your environment?



While most of the time, non-work-related Internet browsing is harmless (looking at pictures of cats, online shopping, social media, etc.) there are some instances where you could be an unknowing and unwilling participant in criminal activity. That is, when users hide that activity via the Tor network, or the

Onion.City — Search Engine for Deep Web that Works From Normal Web Browser

There is an entire section of the Internet that you probably don’t see on daily basis, it’s called the "Darknet" or "Deep Web", where all browsing is done anonymously.



About a week ago, we reported about the 'Memex' Deep Web Search Engine, a Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project to create a powerful new search engine that could find things on the deep web that isn't

Mozilla Deploying High-capacity Tor Middle Relays

Back in November, Mozilla teamed-up with Tor Project under a new initiative called Polaris, in order to help reduce finite number of Tor connections occurring at the same time by adding high-capacity Tor middle relays to the Tor network, and now the company is ready with its first Tor Middle relays.



The Firefox maker has given the Tor network a high-capacity middle relays with the launch