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 ...

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 ...

In Trump’s America, more and more people are turning to tools that allow them to use the internet privately. Here’s what happened when contributor Jen Rajchel tried Tor for the first time. Tor, short ...

The Tor Project is working with researchers to harden the anonymising Tor network and prevent law enforcement or cyberattackers from being able to snoop on users. The Tor network, also known as the ...

“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 Tor Project is advising that people stop using Windows after the discovery of a startling vulnerability in Firefox that undermined the main advantages of the privacy-centered anonymity tool. The ...

The Internet is not a secure place for exchanging information. There are many prying eyes on you trying to get a piece of your secret information. In this era of free-flowing data, most of us use the ...

Twitter just struck a blow against government censorship, even if the tech giant won't come out and say so directly. Tor works by sending users' internet traffic through random servers, and encrypting ...

The news over the past few years has been spattered with cases of Internet anonymity being stripped away, despite (or because) of the use of privacy tools. Tor, the anonymizing “darknet” service, has ...

Tor is a good security tool, but it's not very user-friendly. PORTAL seeks to make Tor easy -- and almost foolproof -- to use by building it into a travel router. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...