Security News
Researchers create digital dossiers of mobile users scraped from Tor network traffic.
Starting with its next stable release, Tor (The Onion Router) browser will reject End-Of-Life relays by default, the Tor Project has announced. read more
Members of The Onion Router (Tor) community have raised $86,081 as part of an initiative aimed at securing funds to find and squash issues in the popular browser. Called the Bug Smash Fund, the...
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
Alternative Services spec bungled by browser makers The HTTP Alternative Services header can be abused to conduct network reconnaissance and attacks, to bypass malware protection services, and to...
Child abuse swap-shop admins to spend decades behind bars The FBI is keeping quiet how exactly it brought down a Tor-hidden pedophile haven, having secured decades-long prison sentences for four...
A recently discovered variant of the Mirai Internet of Things (IoT) malware is using a command and control (C&C) server on the Tor network, Trend Micro’s security researchers have discovered. read more
The update patches critical flaw (CVE-2019-11707), a type confusion vulnerability in the Mozilla Firefox code that Tor uses.
Following the latest critical update for Firefox, the Tor Project today released an updated version of its anonymity and privacy browser to patch the same Firefox vulnerability in its bundle....