The Tor network and VPNs both promise to boost your online anonymity—but that’s pretty much where the similarities end. I ...

What Is Tor? Tor—short for the Onion Routing project—is an open-source privacy network that enables anonymous web browsing. The worldwide Tor computer network uses secure, encrypted protocols ...

Instead, it turns your computer (or the computer of the person you’re talking to) into an onion service, so that you can connect directly through Tor without any middleman.

Ultrasounds emitted by ads or JavaScript code hidden on a page accessed through the Tor Browser can deanonymize Tor users by making nearby phones or computers send identity beacons back to ...

The Web anonymity service's allegation that the FBI paid researchers to unmask Tor users has alarmed some cryptographers and raises questions about the collaborative relationship between law ...

The Tor Project is attempting to assure users that the network is still safe after a recent investigative report warned that law enforcement from Germany and other countries are working together ...

Security experts call it a “drive-by download”: a hacker infiltrates a high-traffic website and then subverts it to deliver malware to every single visitor. It’s one of the most powerful ...

Josh reportedly admitted to agents he had a TOR browser on his computer, which allows him to access the dark web anonymously. Faulkner explained that the dark web is used to find child pornography.

A prominent lawyer for computer hackers has been busted for smashing his teenage son’s laptop to smithereens. Tor Ekeland, 51, a Brooklyn-based attorney whose clients have included notorious … ...

Nicholas Weaver is a staff researcher at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. Ars recently reviewed two "Tor routers," devices that are supposed to improve your ...

• Using what is known as the Tor computer network to cloak his digital footprints. • Misusing his position as a police officer by getting others to report on the comings and goings of the woman.

If I was in high school, tasked with a writing a term paper about online privacy, I might hand in homework that compared and contrasted Tor, consumer VPNs and VPN routers. Something much like the ...