At the start of December, the Tor Project’s support email inbox began receiving an unusual number of messages from users saying they were encountering problems accessing the digital anonymity service.

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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.

Pogoplug has launched a new privacy adapter, Safeplug, which the company says can add internet anonymity within seconds by re-routing all internet traffic through Tor. The compact box, priced at $49, ...

The Tor browser, arguably the best privacy-protective internet browser available for most people, is running low on bridge servers. The decline in servers affects the browser’s ability to combat ...

BOSTON Reuters - Tor, the prominent system for protecting Internet privacy, said on Wednesday many of its users trying to reach hidden sites might have been identified by government-funded researchers ...

Since the revelations about NSA spying came to the surface earlier this summer, everybody’s paying a little bit more attention to their privacy online. That’s good news for Tor, a suite of software ...

The Tor Project team has announced the release of Tor Browser 11.5, a major release that brings new features to help users fight censorship easier. The Tor Browser has been created specifically for ...

MOSCOW -- The Russian authorities apparently have a new enemy in their crosshairs: web tools that give users online anonymity. On February 5, lawmaker Leonid Levin proposed blocking so-called web ...

Last week, the Iranian government apparently started a new censorship program that blocks encrypted Internet traffic. Even Iranians who had taken steps to evade government firewalls were being stymied ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Tor Project has announced the first stable release of its ultra-secure internet browser for Android devices—and you ...

Privacy and internet — sounds like the beginning of a joke, right? Contrary to the popular belief, however, the two really can go together. Yes, our data (which, to ...