"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 ...

The number of web browsers I have on my system grows every day. Mostly I stick with one or two browsers (at the moment, those are Firefox and Sidekick), but every once in a while, I toss in a third ...

If you seek utmost privacy when surfing the web, the Tor browser is your best bet. This free, open-source browser routes your traffic through multiple volunteer-run servers, scrambling your data and ...

Since 2010, Juliana has been a professional writer in the technology and small business worlds. She has both journalism and copywriting experience and is exceptional at distilling complex concepts ...

The researchers were led by graduate student Albert Kwon. In a paper published online earlier this month, the group detailed how Riffle could emerge as a next-generation communication system with ...

A number of messaging services continue to tout their security as assured through encryption. But in a world where some of those services, like Telegram, flip-flop on their privacy policies, ...

The Tor Project is attempting to assure users that the network is still safe after a recent investigative report warned that law enforcement from Germany and other countries are working together to ...

Tor Browser offers the ultimate in privacy. You can use Tor Browser on your Android device. This privacy-centric web browser is free to install and use. I'm all about ...

On October 29-30 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Hackers to Hackers Conference will occur, and one of its presentations will be about how the Tor anonymizing network was compromised by French researchers.

People who rely on Tor expect their traffic to move through the network without giving away who they are. That trust depends on the strength of the encryption that protects each hop. Tor developers ...

The Tor Project, the nonprofit that maintains software for the Tor anonymity network, is joining forces with Tails, the maker of a portable operating system that uses Tor. Both organizations seek to ...