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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.
Websites can track us by the way we type – here’s how to stop it
Researchers have come up with a new Chrome extension that muffles our key-press duration and typing lags.
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.
FBI again thwarts Tor to unmask visitors to a Dark Web child sex abuse site
Did the FBI plant a drive-by installation of some kind of malware on hundreds of thousands of computers so it could track down paedophiles?
Who killed Proxyham?
The new and cheap anonymizing device, Proxyham, has been axed and its DEFCON talk cancelled. Was the firm hit with a gag order, or was it just hype to begin with?
TV’s newest hacker drama “Mr. Robot” is technically sound, morally ambiguous
“Mr. Robot,” USA Network’s new hacker drama series, is good entertainment. But is it also a good depiction of hackers, hacking and infosec?
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.
Encrypt like everyone’s watching! 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
There’s a Sophos T-shirt that warns you, “Dance like nobody’s watching. Encrypt like everyone is.” We aren’t kidding, folks, and this week’s 60 Second Security tells you why!
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.