The Tor Project has published Chrome and Firefox extensions over the summer to help users in censored countries connect to the Tor network. The extensions are not meant to be installed by users living ...

“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 ...

When Mike Tigas first created the Onion Browser app for iOS in 2012, he never expected it to become popular. He was working as a newsroom Web developer at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, ...

The Tor Project has released Tor Browser 10.5 with V2 onion URL deprecation warnings, a redesigned Tor connection experience, and an improved anti-censorship feature. Last year, the Tor Project ...

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If you value privacy and browsing history when using your Android device, you might want to start using Tor browser instead of the popular yet less secure browsers like Google Chrome. Built to protect ...

The Tor browser has a software flaw that government agents may have exploited to hack unsuspecting targets. The vulnerability deals with a software extension called NoScript, which comes with version ...

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 ...

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 ...

Russia Blocks Tor Browser's Main Website in Censorship Push The Russian government is also blocking access to default Tor bridges, the backend connections necessary to help the browser circumvent ...

Brave, one of the top-rated browsers for privacy, has fixed a bug in its Private Windows with Tor feature that leaked the .onion URLs for websites visited by users. According to a report by an ...