Security News

Carnegie Mellon Denies FBI Paid for Tor-Breaking Research (WIRED)
2015-11-18 20:51

Carnegie Mellon Says It Was Subpoenaed-And Not Paid-For Research On Breaking Tor (Threatpost)
2015-11-18 19:55

Carnegie Mellon University implied in a statement that it received a subpoena requesting its research on breaking Tor hidden services, and also implied it was not paid $1 million for the work as...

University Responds to Accusations of FBI Funding for Tor Hack (SecurityWeek)
2015-11-18 18:06

Both FBI And Carnegie Mellon Are Now Denying $1 Million Tor Surveillance Payment (Forbes)
2015-11-18 18:06

The million-dollar hole in the FBI 'paying CMU to crack Tor' story (The Register)
2015-11-17 03:06

FBI denies paying $1 million to unmask Tor users (ZDNet)
2015-11-16 12:21

Did Carnegie Mellon Attack Tor for the FBI? (Schneier on Security)
2015-11-16 12:19

There's pretty strong evidence that the team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University who canceled their scheduled 2015 Black Hat talk deanonymized Tor users for the FBI. Details are in this...

Week in review: Linux ransomware, university researchers unmask Tor users, and how one man changed the way we understand SSL (Help Net Security)
2015-11-16 07:35

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: Ivan Ristic and SSL Labs: How one man changed the way we understand SSL "When I originally came with the idea of SSL...

FBI: The allegation that we paid CMU $1M to hack into Tor is inaccurate (ArsTechnica)
2015-11-13 21:05

Tor says Carnegie Mellon researchers were paid $1million to attack its users. (Reddit)
2015-11-13 17:05