The hackers behind the massive breach of user data from AshleyMadison.com are still at it – posting another larger dump of data from the cheaters’ dating site for the second time this week.
Tag Archives: dark web
Cracked Uber accounts tumble to 40 cents on the dark web
Dark web listings say they won’t refund/replace if Uber asks for verification: a sign that Uber’s experiments with strong verification requirements are paying off.
Google, Facebook and Twitter join forces to combat child abuse imagery
Google, Facebook and Twitter have joined forces with the Internet Watch Foundation in a bid to remove potentially millions of child sexual abuse imagery from the web.
Can you trust Tor’s entry guards?
New research uses Tor entry guard computers to strip away the Dark Web’s anonymity features, exposing users and the hidden websites they visit.
Dark web drug dealer pleads guilty, gets 2 years to ponder “anonymity”
He was an online dealer who made use of the so-called Dark Web, shielded by the apparent anonymity of Tor, or The Onion Router. He’s not anonymous any more.
Cheating site Ashley Madison breached by hackers threatening to expose users
Attackers threaten to publish nude pictures, secret sexual fantasies, real names and addresses of Ashley Madison users: all as comeuppance for what they say is an unkept promise of secrecy.
Hundreds of Dark Web sites cloned and “booby trapped”
Juha Nurmi, founder of the Ahmia search project, first noticed a fake version of his own site before discovering that there are multiple clones of hundreds of other Dark Web sites. The sites could be used for surveillance or for conducting man-in-the-middle attacks and include a clone of the popular DuckDuckGo search engine.
Can you trust Tor’s exit nodes?
Tor is the encrypted, anonymous way to browse the web that keeps you safe from prying eyes, right? Well, maybe not. Researcher Chloe created a honeypot website and dared Tor’s exit node operators to steal the password. Twelve of them did.
Adult FriendFinder hacked, users’ intimate details exposed on Dark Web
Adult FriendFinder, a website billed as a way for people to “find friends, sex, flings and hookups,” has had a serious data breach. Now millions of people who thought they were using a discrete service to find casual sex have had their private information exposed online.
If the “Deep Web” becomes searchable, is it still deep? 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Watch the latest episode of our only-takes-a-minute security roundup video! This week: From old crypto bugs to the latest Windows security holes…