Tor browsers

Another day, another disappointing news for The Pirate Bay users – Today for the third time in 5 days The Pirate Bay domain has gone offline. Currently, those visiting the site can see “Error 522 Connection timed out” message generated by Cloudflare since The Pirate Bay uses its CDN and DDoS ...

Library staff can help install tracking blockers, password managers, two-factor authentication and other security tools on your devices, and help you assess when to turn to more advanced tools like the Tor browser or a VPN. Those who can't make the drop-in hour, or who have specific issues, can arrange a ...

Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody from watching your ...

Things get even more interesting after finding out that anyone who wants to download a file from OnionShare, must be using the secure Tor Browser. For some, going this route is probably taking things too far, but from our point of view, security on the web is more important than convenience. Bear in mind ...

Moreover, the TOR browser is a multi-platform browser available for free for those who want surfing anonymity by not having their IP (Internet Protocol) tracked. This browser is so effective that many websites will not allow you to use their servers if you use TOR as they insist on planting cookies on your IP so ...

Christin said he believes government discovery and use of vulnerabilities in the Tor protocol or in the Tor browser, which is a modified version of Firefox, would be short-lived. In 2015, the government seized a darknet child porn website and used malware to unmask the IP addresses of hundreds of users.

The option was added at the request of Tor Browser developers as part of the Tor Uplift project, an initiative to bolster the Firefox codebase with some of the Tor Browser's unique privacy-focused features. The Tor Browser is based on Firefox and they wanted a simple way to hide the Firefox Sync UI [1, 2], ...

While cybercriminals trust and use one of many VPN services, they also like to use the Tor browser for web anonymity. All websites in this network have the .onion extension. While almost all ransomware viruses provide instructions to download the Tor browser, some prefer to only provide links to Tor ...

Analysis US judges have shut down an appeal from a convicted pedophile who claimed the FBI hacking of his computer was an illegal and unreasonable search. Gabriel Werdene, 53, of Bucks County, Philadelphia, is serving two years in a federal prison for rummaging through the Playpen dark-web filth ...

The Tor browser is also expected to receive a significant update soon, once it switches to the Firefox ESR v60 base. Firefox ESR v60 will adopt all of the latest Firefox Quantum features, including the significantly more secure multi-process sandboxing architecture. Mozilla has also started adopting some of ...

Tor Browser 7.5 has been released this week complete with a bunch of security fixes that have already been rolled out to the Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 52.6 client it is built upon. Firefox ESR is similar to other versions of the Mozilla browser client, but doesn't update as frequently apart from ...

The IP address leaking issue only affects Tor browsers on Mac and Linux devices (Windows and Tails Tor users are safe for now). We Are Segment CEO Filippo Cavallarin identified the issue as a bug in the way the Tor browser (built atop a version of Firefox) deals with links beginning with the “file://” ...

The post said Tails users and sandboxed-tor-browsers are also unaffected by the bug. It is unclear if prior versions of the Tor Browser are also impacted or if it's just version 7.0.8. Filippo Cavallarin, CEO of We Are Segment, is credited for discovering the vulnerability and notifying Tor Project on Oct. 26.