Core Tor Developer who accuses FBI of Harassment moves to Germany

One of TOR's primary software developers, Isis Agora Lovecruft, has fled to Germany, following the threat of a federal subpoena.

Lovecruft is a well-known cryptographer and lead software developer for Tor project from many years. She has worked for a variety of other security and encryption products, such as Open Whisper Systems and the LEAP Encryption Access Project.

Since November 2015,

Mozilla asks Court to disclose Firefox Exploit used by FBI to hack Tor users

Mozilla has filed a brief with a U.S. District Court asking the FBI to disclose the potential vulnerabilities in its Firefox browser that the agency exploited to unmask TOR users in a criminal investigation.

Last year, the FBI used a zero-day flaw to hack TOR browser and de-anonymize users visiting child sex websites.

Now, Mozilla is requesting the government to ask the FBI about the details

In-Brief: Telegram Vulnerability, Malware in Nuclear Plant, Anti-Tor Malware and Hotpatching Exploit

Clickjacking Vulnerability in Telegram Web Client
The official Telegram web-client that allows its users to access messenger account over desktop’s web browser is vulnerable to clickjacking web application vulnerability.

Egyptian security researcher Mohamed A. Baset told The Hacker News about a flaw in Telegram that could allow an attacker to change sensitive information of a Telegram user,

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

Subgraph OS — Secure Linux Operating System for Non-Technical Users

Information security and privacy are consistently hot topics after Edward Snowden revelations of NSA's global surveillance that brought the world's attention towards data protection and encryption as never before.



Moreover, just days after Windows 10's successful launch last summer, we saw various default settings in the Microsoft's newest OS that compromise users' privacy, making a large

Ricochet — Most Secure Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Messenger that Sends No Metadata

There are several encrypted messaging apps for mobile and desktop platforms that shipped with "The Most Secure" tagline but ends up in de-anonymizing the real identity of its users in some or the other way.



In fact, very few encrypted messaging apps available today deal with the core problem of Metadata. 



The majority of apps offer end-to-end encryption that kept the content of your

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 '

Default Apache Configuration Can Unmask Tor Hidden Services

Attention Tor Onion Hosters!



A year old loophole in Apache Web Server, uncovered by an unknown Computer Science Student, could potentially unmask the real identity of .onion-domains and servers hidden behind the Tor-network.



Although the loophole was reported on Reddit and to the Tor Project months back, it recently came to the limelight soon after a tweet by Alec Muffet, a well-known

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 wants to BAN Tor and Free Wi-Fi Services after Paris Terror Attacks

Now this was to be done, Sooner or Later – The Government.
In the wake of the recent deadly Paris terror attacks, the French government is considering new laws that would Ban access to Free Wi-Fi and the Tor anonymity network, according to a recent report by French newspaper Le Monde.
The report cites an internal document from the Ministry of Interior by French Department of Civil Liberties and

FBI denies paying $1 MILLION to Unmask Tor Users

Just day before yesterday, the Tor Project Director Roger Dingledine accused the FBI of paying the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) at least $1 Million to disclose the technique they had discovered to unmask Tor users and reveal their IP addresses.



However, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has denied the claims.



In a statement, the FBI spokeswoman said, "The allegation that we paid [

Tor Releases Anonymous Instant Messenger. Here's How to Use It

The Tor Project has officially launched the first beta version of Tor Messenger, an open source and Encrypted instant messaging client that works on top of the Tor network.



Tor Messenger is designed by keeping both simplicity and privacy in mind.



The team claimed that their app encrypts the content of instant messages as well as makes it very difficult for snoopers and eavesdroppers to

Privatoria — Best VPN Service for Fast, Anonymous and Secure Browsing

PRIVACY – a bit of an Internet buzzword nowadays. Why? Because the business model of the Internet has now become data collection.



If you trust Google, Facebook or other Internet giants to be responsible managers of your data, the ongoing Edward Snowden revelations are making it all clear that this type of information can be easily snooped by the intelligence agencies like NSA and GCHQ.

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

How to Anonymously Access Wi-Fi from 2.5 Miles Away Using This Incredible Device

Anonymity is something that seems next to impossible in this era of government surveillance. Even Tor and VPNs are no longer seem to be enough to protect user privacy. Once your IP address is discovered, your Game Over!



However, a method have been devised that not only allow users to anonymously connect to public Wi-Fi network, but also let them connect from about 2.5 Miles away.

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 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

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