How privacy can decrease safety
As a software company founder, I spent the majority of 2017 collecting feedback from teens, pediatricians, church leaders, and school administrators of the trends they are …
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What is privacy and why does it matter?
Privacy is a basic right and a necessary protection in the digital age to avoid victimization and manipulation. In much of the world, privacy is considered a basic human …
Official Tor Browser for Android available on Google Play
The Tor Project has released the first stable version of the Tor Browser for Android. The release is referred to as version 8.5, mainly to prevent confusion: Tor Browser …
Researchers release app that masks printers’ tracking dots
Did you know that nearly all modern color laser printers put tracking patterns of tiny yellow dots on each piece of paper they print? Most printer manufacturers include these …
Alleged cyberstalker unmasked by VPN logs
A Massachusetts man was arrested on cyberstalking charges after the online activities he tried to hide through VPN use were revealed by logs provided by PureVPN. “It is …
Chinese government’s latest crack against online anonymity
The Chinese government is dead-set on making it so that all online interactions can be tied to a specific user. The latest move towards this goal came on Friday, when the …
Uncloaking Tor Browser users with DRM-protected files
Digital Rights Management (DRM)-protected media files can be used to reveal Tor Browser users’ actual IP address and therefore possibly reveal their identity, …
Firefox 0-day exploited in the wild to unmask Tor users
An anonymous user of the SIGAINT darknet email service has revealed the existence of a JavaScript exploit that is apparently being actively used to de-anonymize Tor Browser …
DefecTor: DNS-enhanced correlation attacks against Tor users
A group of researchers from Princeton University, Karlstad University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology have devised two new correlation attacks that can be leveraged to …
Riffle: A new anonymity system to rival Tor
A group of researchers from MIT and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have come up with a new anonymity system that is both bandwidth and computation …
Tor Project gets whole new board of directors
Tor Project’s entire board of directors has stepped down and announced their successors. Among them are the noted “security guru” Bruce Schneier and Cindy …
Tor Project tests new tool for foiling deanonymization attacks
Upcoming hardened releases of the Tor Browser will use a new technique aimed at preventing deanonymization efforts by anyone who might want to mount them. Created by a group …
