Pierluigi Paganini
July 13, 2016
The National Security Agency (NSA) has reportedly turned its focus on Tor and Linux users, having recently shown a keen interest in these usersâ online activities. The NSA has gone as far as calling users of products such as The Amnesic Incognito Live System (Tails) and Tor as extremists. Readers of Linux Journal were also […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 20, 2016
Earlier June the Tor Project announced a hardened version of the popular Tor Browser that implements a feature dubbed Selfrando to defeat exploits. Early June the Tor Project announced a hardened version of the popular Tor Browser, the Tor Browser 6.5a1-hardened. “A new hardened Tor Browser release is available. It can be found in the 6.5a1-hardened […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2016
This week it was discovered that the Tesco Android Bank app won’t run with the Orbot privacy tool installed on the user’s mobile device. I always highlighted the importance of censorship and internet monitoring, architectures like the Tor network are much more than evil tools in the hands of crooks, but probably someone has a different opinion. Tesco Bank […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2016
The Tor Project released the Tor Browser 6.0, the last version of the popular Tor browser that brings along significant privacy and security improvements. Early this week the Tor Project released the new version of the Tor Browser, the Tor Browser 6.0 which is based on Firefox ESR 45. The new version of the popular […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 26, 2016
The researchers at the Tor project are working on a new distributed random number generator that will be included in the next-generation Tor. The researchers at the Tor project have elaborated a new way to generate random numbers to support security improvements of its next-generation onion router. The Random Number Generators are essential components for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2016
Anonymous announced OnionIRC, a new chatroom in the DarkWeb dedicated to teaching hacking and coding techniques and encryption mechanisms. Anonymous, the most popular collective of hacktivists, has announced a new chatroom in the DarkWeb dedicated to teaching its sympathizers hacking and coding techniques and encryption mechanisms. onionirchubx5363 . onion Port 6667 SSL: Port 6697 â Anonymous (@OnionIRC) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2016
FBI is fighting back against the federal judgeâs order to reveal the Tor Exploit and with DoJ filed a sealed motion requesting the review of the ruling. A few weeks ago, a judge has ordered the FBI to reveal the complete source code for the TOR exploit to defense lawyers in a child porn case. In a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2016
A judge has confirmed that US Departement of Defense funded the Carnegie Mellon University to conduct research on the Tor hacking. In November 2015, the researchers at the Tor Project publicly accused the FBI of paying the experts at the Carnegie Mellon University to deanonymize Tor users. The experts at the Tor Project collected information about the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2016
The FBI must provide details on the network investigative technique used to hack more than 1000 computers in a case involving child pornography. In a case involving child pornography, the FBI was ruled by a judge to provide all the code used to hack the PC of suspects and detailed information related to the procedure […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 22, 2016
In 2013 the FBI agents seized TorMail, now new information are emerging on the operations. Someone believes it was a surgical ops others accuse Feds of dragnet surveillance. In 2013 the FBI agents seized TorMail, at the time the most popular dark web email services. The US law enforcement agency seized the TorMail database during in concomitants of the […]
