The Tor Project, a non-profit which develops and maintains the Tor network for anonymized browsing and as a way to skirt censorship-heavy government controls, keeps its eyes on the state of censorship ...

The Tor Project has completely restructured following a sexual abuse scandal that caused one of its top developers to resign. The incident revolved around Jacob Appelbaum, a developer for Tor who was ...

While some people still associate the Tor anonymity network solely with the criminal elements of the dark web, it's increasingly being used by publishers such as Facebook and the New York Times to ...

In a statement released Saturday, Executive Director Shari Steele said over the past several days, “a number of people” had accused Appelbaum of “sexual mistreatment.” The accusations, she added, ...

The latest alpha release of the Tor Browser is now available for download. Version 15.0a4 introduces key security updates ...

Computer scientists found almost 20 exit relays in the Tor anonymity network that attempted to spy on users’ encrypted traffic using man-in-the-middle techniques. The research was carried out over a ...

In a blog post written on November 9, Tor Project director Andrew Lewman went over the possible ways that over 400 hidden services on dozens of servers were located by law enforcement during Operation ...

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 ...

For anyone wanting to keep their identities hidden from snoops and crooks alike, the Tor network is often the first port of call. Yet fresh weaknesses have been identified in The Onion Router system ...

In recent weeks, the number of "hidden services"—usually Web servers and other Internet services accessible by a ".onion" address on the Tor anonymizing network—has risen dramatically. After ...

Jacob Appelbaum, a computer security specialist who has until recently been a core member of the Tor Project, was forced to step down from the project following a series of sexual misconduct ...

We all live in public, at least as far as the US National Security Agency is concerned. As Internet users and global citizens become more aware of surveillance activities that the US and other ...