Earlier this week, leaked documents revealed that French police were pressuring President Francois Hollande (pictured above) to ban the Tor browser and to block public Wi-Fi ...
December 11, 2015 at 9:00 pm by Ashley Allen
In the wake of the Paris terror attacks, French police has submitted proposals to ban anonymous web browser Tor and block Wi-Fi networks in public places to President Francois ...
December 7, 2015 at 9:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Last week, The Onion Router team claimed that Carnegie Mellon University had taken $1 million from the FBI to compromise its Tor browser. The University has now spoken out ...
November 19, 2015 at 9:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Several operators have reported that their Tor exit nodes have been hit by large-scale DDoS attacks originating in the UK. While some abnormalities have been written off by ...
November 16, 2015 at 4:50 pm by Ashley Allen
The Onion Network (or Tor), a free browser designed to allow anonymous, encrypted internet communication, has been the bane of law enforcement and intelligence agencies since ...
November 12, 2015 at 5:43 pm by Ashley Allen
Ransomware is a particularly nasty piece of malware that has become even more popular in recent years. Initially, malware was designed to just disrupt or damage a ...
November 10, 2015 at 6:00 am by Gareth Andrews
Browsing online became a service that people watched more carefully after Edward Snowden revealed the extent at which our online activity was being monitored, from every web ...
September 13, 2015 at 1:54 pm by Gareth Andrews
The Tor network is commonly referred to as ‘The Dark Web’ and perceived as an encrypted space to exchange illegal goods or engage in unscrupulous activities. While ...
September 12, 2015 at 4:11 pm by John Williamson
Tor claims to allow people to connect to the internet and through their network become invisible and untrackable, this has made it very popular in recent years in which ...
August 2, 2015 at 6:00 pm by Gareth Andrews
Have you heard of the Silk Road? It’s been pretty big news recently. The website was the core of “the dark web” – a side of the internet that was only ...
May 31, 2015 at 1:55 am by Robert Ainsworth
International intelligence agencies, such as the US National Security Agency (NSA), may have developed the ability to peel back the layers of The Onion Router network some ...
May 23, 2015 at 12:58 am by Ashley Allen
The FBI is attempting to circumvent the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution in order to spy on The Onion Network (Tor) and Virtual Proxy Network (VPN) users. According to ...
January 26, 2015 at 11:58 pm by Ashley Allen
The Tor Project, victims of an attempted hack by a group known as Lizard Squad, has reassured users that the threat is being dealt with and that users’ anonymity ...
December 28, 2014 at 1:29 am by Ashley Allen
Lizard Squad, the hacker group responsible for the Christmas Day attacks on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, has turned its sights upon anonymous internet server, Tor (The ...
December 26, 2014 at 11:52 pm by Ashley Allen
If you’ve a spare $1,949 and are in the market for a new laptop, you could do worse than investing in a Librem, the new open source PC from San Francisco-based company, ...
November 21, 2014 at 3:34 am by Ashley Allen
