“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 ...

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 ...

You probably know about the digital anonymity service Tor, but for whatever reason you may not actually use it. Maybe between the nodes, traffic rerouting, and special onion URLs it seems too ...

Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). The Tor Project has ...

While the internet has dramatically expanded the ability to share knowledge, it has also made issues of privacy more complicated. Many people are justifiably worried about their personal information ...

Tor VPN is free to use but is still in beta and intended for testing purposes only. Don’t use it for high-stakes or privacy-critical work. Attila covers software, apps and services, with a focus on ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Talk of online security often turns to the underground TOR network, but skulking around the seedy side of the web usually isn't the ...

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 ...

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 Russian government has fully blocked the web anonymity service Tor, after days of blocks by individual internet service providers (ISPs). Russia accounts for 15 per cent of all Tor users, with ...

A man in Ireland is arrested on child pornography charges, and a network of ostensibly anonymous and invisible websites goes down at the same time. It's no coincidence, and this latest chapter in the ...