Tor Project

Pierluigi Paganini March 22, 2016
Tor Project and the new anti-tampering measures for its software

Tor Project revealed how the organization has conducted a three-year long work to improve its ability to detect fraudulent software. The experts at the Tor Project are working to improve the resilience of the anonymizing network to cyber attacks, in particular, they aim to quickly detect any surveillance activity conducted by tempering the Tor system. The researchers fear […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 30, 2015
The Tor Project Is launching the Tor Bug Bounty Program

The Tor officially announced to launch the Tor Bug Bounty Program in the next year, a great news for the Tor community. The non-profit organization that is maintaining the TOR project plans to launch very soon  a Tor Bug Bounty Program for researchers who find vulnerabilities in the popular anonymizing platform. This is a great for all the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 25, 2014
A dark wing of the intelligence supports the Tor Project

Experts working at US and UK Intelligence agencies on monthly base leak Tor vulnerabilities to the developers at the Tor Project. The BBC reported that the executive director of the Tor Project revealed that both US and UK intelligence agencies share bugs anonymously with Tor developers. The circumstance is quite surprising considering that both NSA and GCHQ […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2014
Replica of the Tor website used to serve malware

A security researcher discovered the Torbundlebrowser.org,web site that is a replica of Tor Project site, but it is used to serve a malware. The increasing popularity of Tor network is attracting cyber criminals, recently the French security researcher Florent Daigniere discovered a website (torbundlebrowser.org) that is the replica of the original Tor Network but a […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2013
Mac malware detected by Appelbaum at Oslo Freedom Forum

NEW MAC MALWARE HAS BEEN DISCOVERED BY JACOB APPELBAUM ON ATTENDEE COMPUTER AT OSLO FREEDOM FORUM WHERE IS DEBATED ALSO GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE. A new Mac Malware has been detected at recent Oslo Freedom Forum workshop, the concerning discovery has been made by the popular security expert Jacob Appelbaum. “Hundreds of the world’s most influential dissidents, innovators, journalists, philanthropists, and […]