Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO).

A method for anonymous communications over a wide area network such as the Internet. Onion routing hides the names of the parties that are communicating as well as the data by encrypting the payload ...

The Silk Road and NSA spying may be old news, but The Onion Router (Tor) continues to generate interest among Internet users seeking online anonymity. Tor isn’t all upside, though. As I found out, you ...

There are a number of tactics that can help keep your browsing private. You can use a VPN to make it look like your internet activity is coming from somewhere else; if you use Safari, you can take ...

A few years ago, the best way to put a device or project online was by hacking a router. With an inconspicuous Linksys WRT54G held onto a project with baling wire, anything can connect to the Internet ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Tor is free and open-source software for enabling anonymous communication by directing Internet traffic through a ...

Fighting the war on drugs is like peeling an onion: Every layer removed only reveals another. Waging that battle on the secured, encrypted Tor network—which itself stands for “the onion router”—poses ...

Researchers in the U.S. say they’ve successfully shown how attackers could compromise a network designed to make it harder to trace Internet surfers and the Web sites they are viewing. The researchers ...

Two veteran coders have teamed up to create a kind of Google for the anonymous underweb. Aaron Swartz, a Reddit developer, and Virgil Griffith, creator of WikiScanner, have created a new service ...