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Pierluigi Paganini February 06, 2017

Microsoft Windows DRM issue could be exploited to uncloak Tor Browser users

HackerHouse researchers have discovered that media content protected by Digital Rights Management (DRM) can be used to uncloak Windows Tor Browser users. The anonymity of the Tor users is threatened by a new issue related the Microsoft’s DRM. Windows users running the Tor browser can be de-anonymized with a trick based on the Microsoft DRM (Digital Rights […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2017

TorWorld helps you to manage a Tor node, promising an upcoming Tor-as-a-Service

The TorWorld initiative aims to build a community area for those people that desire to set up either a Tor Relay or a Tor Exit node. We all recognize the importance of the Tor network, an important instrument to protect users’ anonymity and avoid censorship. Today I desire to present you an interesting initiative launched by Tor […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2017

Lavabit, the Snowden recommended encrypted email service, is back

Lavabit, the Snowden recommended encrypted email service, is back. Its CEO Ladar Levison announced new privacy-enhancing features. Do you remember Lavabit? It was the US Encrypted Email Service used by the popular whistleblower Edward Snowden. Lavabit was an encrypted webmail service founded in 2004 by Ladar Levison, it closed on August 8, 2013 after the US authorities ordered it to turn […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2017

ProtonMail announced that its Tor Hidden Service is online

The popular encrypted email provider ProtonMail has launched the Tor Hidden Service to provide further protection to its users. ProtonMail is the world’s largest encrypted email provider with over 2 million users worldwide. Its popularity exploded just after the US presidential election, its users include journalists, activists, businesses, and normal people that want to protect their […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2017

ZeroNet could be a solution against censorship and much more

ZeroNet is a new and revolutionary decentralized P2P internet that promise to avoid censorship and improve user privacy on the open web. ZeroNet is a decentralized and open source web platform. It’s based on BitTorrent(p2p) technology and BitCoin cryptography. These features ensure a decentralized censorship-resistant network. The contents published by users can never be deleted […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 12, 2016

Tor Project released an alpha version of the Sandboxed Tor Browser

Experts from the Tor project have launched an early alpha version of Sandboxed Tor Browser 0.0.2. to protect users’ anonymity. Experts from the Tor project have launched an early alpha version of Sandboxed Tor Browser 0.0.2. The Sandboxed Tor Browser aims to isolate the Tor Browser from other processes of the operating system in order to limit its ability […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 30, 2016

The code of a Firefox Zero-Day Exploit used to unmask Tor Users is online

A zero-day exploit in the wild has been used by threat actors to de-anonymize Tor users by executing malicious code on Windows machines. The news is disconcerting and confirms the existence of a zero-day exploit in the wild that’s being used by threat actors to de-anonymize Tor users by executing malicious code on their machine. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2016

Here’s how Tor Project and Mozilla will make harder de-anonymizing Tor users

Tor Project and Mozilla are working together to improve the security of Tor users and make harder for attackers to unmask them. Intelligence and law enforcement agencies continue to invest in order to de-anonymize Tor users. In the past, we received news about several techniques devised by various agencies to track Tor users, from the correlation attacks to the hack […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 02, 2016

DefecTor – Deanonymizing Tor users with the analysis of DNS traffic from Tor exit relays

Researchers devised two correlation attacks, dubbed DefecTor, to deanonymize Tor users using also data from observation of DNS traffic from Tor exit relays. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies dedicate an important commitment in the fight of illegal activities in the Dark Web where threat actors operate in a condition of pseudo-anonymity. A group of security researchers at […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 02, 2016

Operation Pacifier, the FBI massive hacking campaign to de-anonymize Tor users

Operation Pacifier is the massive hacking campaign against computers worldwide launched by the FBI in early 2015 to track criminals on the dark web. We are now aware that the FBI launched a massive hacking campaign against computers worldwide in early 2015 in the attempt to de-anonymize criminals visiting dark web child porn website The use of the NIT was […]

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Microsoft Windows DRM issue could be exploited to uncloak Tor Browser users

TorWorld helps you to manage a Tor node, promising an upcoming Tor-as-a-Service

Lavabit, the Snowden recommended encrypted email service, is back

ProtonMail announced that its Tor Hidden Service is online

ZeroNet could be a solution against censorship and much more

Tor Project released an alpha version of the Sandboxed Tor Browser

The code of a Firefox Zero-Day Exploit used to unmask Tor Users is online

Here’s how Tor Project and Mozilla will make harder de-anonymizing Tor users

DefecTor – Deanonymizing Tor users with the analysis of DNS traffic from Tor exit relays

Operation Pacifier, the FBI massive hacking campaign to de-anonymize Tor users

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