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The Tor Project, the nonprofit developers of the Tor network and Tor Browser, have announced two exciting developments for onion services: affordable DV certificates for v3 onion sites from HARICA, and new, easy onion site setup guides. Onion sites are websites that are only accessible over the Tor network: you can spot them because they end in the TLD.onion.
Brave has patched up its privacy-focused web browser after it was spotted leaking its Tor users' dark-web habits. Onion domains visited by the browser to whatever DNS servers the software was configured to use for non-Tor websites, allowing whoever operates those DNS servers - or anyone who can snoop on the queries in transit - to figure out the kinds of hidden services frequented by an individual user.
Brave Browser is fixing a privacy issue that leaks the Tor onion URL addresses you visit to your locally configured DNS server, exposing the dark web websites you visit. To access Tor onion URLs, Brave added a 'Private Window with Tor' mode that acts as a proxy to the Tor network.
The Tor Project this week rolled out an update to its browser that attempts to make the anonymity-protecting onion routing scheme more approachable. The Tor Project itself emerged from federally funded research led by the US Office of Naval Research and DARPA. Tor is an acronym for the original name of the project, The Onion Router, an encrypted networking protocol designed to support anonymous communication - although paradoxically a popular website for Tor users is Facebook.
Launching denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against Tor’s most commonly used default bridges and flooding them would cost attackers around $17,000 per month, researchers have discovered. read more
In parts of the developing world, dissidents and journalists face hostile governments and other threats -- and mobile is their only access to the internet.
Private tabs squeezed through anonymizing network taste like actual privacy Brave Software has updated its web browser so that its private mode actually supports privacy, or nearly – a few...
The Tor Project has made some significant changes to its infrastructure by improving the way the 'onion' network protects its users' privacy and security. Since the beginning, the largest free...
Encrypted email service ProtonMail announced early Thursday that it had added its own Tor hidden service.
