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 ...

The spike in the number of clients using the Tor anonymity network was likely caused by a botnet, according to Tor and third-party security researchers. Around Aug. 20, the number of Tor clients ...

Twitter last week announced plans to begin tracking troublesome users via their mobile phone number. Along those lines, it has begun forcing users of anonymous web browser Tor to provide a number in ...

So it appears that people do care about their privacy after all. What with the never-ending revelations of US government spying and various other security concerns over the last few months, people ...

The developers behind the Tor Project have created a system where computers collaborate to create a truly random number to make communications harder to crack iStock The group of Tor developers are ...

Tor, a system that anonymizes the connection route to the Internet, allows people under government surveillance to hide their identities and communicate, and residents of countries with political ...

Here's your beginner-friendly explainer on this privacy and security tool for online browsing, and how it works with VPNs. Rae Hodge was a senior editor at CNET. She led CNET's coverage of privacy and ...

Research into the behavior of Tor exit relays found that more than two dozen are malicious or misconfigured and could be snooping on traffic leaving the privacy network. A small number of Tor exit ...

The Internet of Things is creating serious new security risks. We examine the possibilities and the dangers. Read now Over the past week, a security researcher has published technical details about ...

This week on the Tor e-mail list, Roger Dingledine, the project leader for the well-known online anonymity tool, pointed out that the “number of Tor clients running appears to have doubled since ...

The spike in the number of clients using the Tor anonymity network was likely caused by a botnet, according to Tor and third-party security researchers. Around Aug. 20, the number of Tor clients ...