“Tor” evokes an image of the dark web; a place to hire hitmen or buy drugs that, at this point, is overrun by feds trying to catch you in the act. The reality, however, is a lot more boring than that ...

A digital signing flaw killed add-ons for Firefox as well as Tor — and no patch is yet available for Tor users. Thanks to Mozilla letting an intermediate signing certificate expire, the Tor community ...

Although Tor and VPNs both serve to protect privacy, they’re fundamentally different in the way they work. Tor encrypts your data multiple times and forwards it via three independent servers worldwide ...

Plans are afoot for Firefox to get a new “extra-private” browsing mode courtesy of the Tor browser. According to a proposal from the Tor Project’s meeting in Stockholm earlier this month, some ...

Charalampos (Babis) Rallis is affiliated with University of East London, University College London and Birkbeck College, University of London. Our bodies monitor and sense the amount of nutrients ...

While incognito mode - or similar features - on modern browsers may provide the illusion of privacy, research has consistently shown that websites can still track your browsing data and habits while ...

If you’re concerned about privacy and want one of the most well-protected browsers available — and don’t mind that it may prevent you from using certain websites — then you should try the Tor Browser.

Mozilla and the Tor Project are in the early stages of exploring the inclusion of Tor's private browsing features within the Firefox web browser in the form of a privileged extension. This comes on ...

The Tor Project has called on its community to establish 200 WebTunnel bridges to help users in Russia get connected to the free web. The call comes after Russian authorities clamped down on Tor ...

Mozilla said in the company's public Research Grants 2019H1 report that it wants to integrate some Tor features into the Firefox web browser with the end goal of adding a so-called Super Private ...

The Tor Project is preparing a fix for a bug that has been abused for the past years to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against dark web (.onion) websites. Barring any unforeseen ...

There are two sides to the internet. One is littered with cookies, targeted adware, and other tracking devices. The other is dark. So dark, you may remain anonymous. But to scientists, the activity on ...