Anonymity

The erosion of privacy and growth of censorship on the internet increasingly threaten freedom of expression in the digital age.Information flows are becoming subject...

Users of anonymity services such as Tor and VPN could be hacked as well as spied by law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, under the new law changes approved by the US Supreme Court.

Sigaint, one of the largest darknet email providers, has been down from February 11.To date, there are no signs of the site going online...

The Shadow Brokers are at it again, this time having released what they call “a Halloween special trick or treat for Amerikanskis.” This release follows their bigger, more hard-hitting leak in August this year when they availed NSA hacking tools for anyone to download

Computer viruses and malware are spreading faster than their biological counterparts it seems. Numbers from security firms point to the fact that close to 20 million malware threats have been neutralized in the first quarter of 2016. This equates to about 27,000 in one single day.

Anonymous Russian hacker going by the moniker “The Collector” is allegedly selling the 272 million credentials in the form of emails and passwords in the dark web for less than a dollar.

The Shadow Brokers, a rogue hacking outfit that stole data from the NSA, has released the password to a previous file dump.

The fact that Google gathers personal data on its users using a variety of their services is in no way recent news. It has...

If you are reading this, then you have obviously decided to take a trip down the rabbit hole into the dark web.Like any other...

In one of the most infamous mass hacking operations conducted by the U.S. Federal agency, the FBI, court documents had initially revealed that over 1,000 computers from users based in the United States had been compromised.

Sci-Hub has introduced a new feature, a Telegram Messenger app, which helps users to search for peer-reviewed academic papers. Users’ communication with the app is encrypted.

The US Department of Defense has started accepting applications for its “Hack the Pentagon” commercial bug bounty program. According to an announcement released by the Defense Department, the goal of the Hack the Pentagon program is to identify as well as resolve vulnerabilities in security within the department’s websites through crowdsourcing.

Recent developments in the cyber-crime domain have indicated that not even well-established industry players are immune from cyber-attacks.

Intro: If you want to browse the Deep Web, Tor, The Onion Router, is a critical first step.Without it your dreams of deep web adventures,...

An amendment to the surveillance law is being sought by the Obama administration so that the FBI is vested with the authority to access internet browsing history of a person without a warrant in cases involving espionage and terrorism, according to reports.

File sharing and anonymous peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing, in particular, have always been a hot-button issue in propriety as well as open source software communities. There is a myriad of reasons why internet users might seek to share files anonymously, with the first that comes to mind being the plight of whistleblowers or political activists trying to avoid persecution.

Edward Snowden decided to seek asylum in Russia after the controversial leakage in the United States classified government surveillance information. Things had begun to cool down in the U.S. however, three years down the line, the revelations of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden still have a huge impact in the current world.

Anonymous, the international network of activist that comprises mainly of online hackers, is well known for its cyber-attacks on government, corporate, and religious websites since its inception in 2003.

Bitcoin is the dominant player over cryptocurrencies, allowing consumers to make electronic transactions without any fees, nor have to use commercial banks, companies, or the government as intermediaries.

There are times when you may just have a gut feeling you’re being tracked, in the sense that someone is listening to your phone...

It seems that cyber criminals are constantly modifying and improving the tactics they use to achieve t

Four years ago, Lavabit was caught on the horns of a massive dilemma that would have forced it to release the crucial encryption keys for their encrypted email service, risking the privacy of their hundreds of thousands of users in the process.

A new app developed by computer scientists from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute threatens online anonymity by monitoring computer web usage.

With hacking attempts and NSA surveillance news hogging the internet, it’s not surprising to see the average user feel paranoid about their privacy. After...

What is Vuvuzela?The new anonymity network system prototype (anonymity network) was developed by researchers Nickolai Zeldovich, David Lazar, Jelle van den Hoof, and Matei Zaharia from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). It derives its name from one for the world’s most annoying and noisy musical instruments (as seen from the 2010 FIFA World Cup), the “Vuvuzela.” The network’s name couldn’t have been any more precise as its core functionality involves spamming legitimate conversations with a noisy atmosphere to enforce anonymity.

A new strain of ransomware, nicknamed CryptMix, is promising hacking victims that part of the money they send to unlock their blocked files will be donated to a kids’ charity.

Australians’ online privacy is in jeopardy as ISPs and telecom companies now have to collect and store all phone and internet activity.

Ransomware is a kind of computer malware that disables users from accessing their PC or selected files in their systems until a certain amount of money is paid as “ransom.”

The iPhone 5C has been the heart of the contentious ongoing public spat between Apple and the FBI. This Apple product was used by gunman Syed Rizwan Farook in the terrorist attack that killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California last December. FBI has cracked its way into the iPhone 5C, but the Apple-FBI saga continues as the agency spills the beans of the hack to members of Congress.

Deriving information from a person from a website they visit is not something new, but making an inference from their speed of keying in...

The recently released biopic by Oliver Stone that is based on the actions of former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, Edward Snowden, has inspired the campaign for his pardon. This movement aims to call on President Barack Obama to pardon the man behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA’s history.

Truth be told, anyone who was alive in the infamous Julian Assange era also caught wind of famed former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Apparently, the whistleblower has been hiding in Russia, for almost three years after he did the unthinkable - divulged the highly classified intelligence records that featured “activities the US federal government would rather have remain under the radar.”

The families that helped hide Edward Snowden following the infamous NSA surveillance data leak in 2013 have been denied asylum by the Hong Kong government.

Since late last October, onion service operators have been on the receiving end of numerous DoS and DDoS attacks, both on the deep web onion service and also on the clearnet websites. The Dos and DDoS attacks have generally alternated between the deep web and the clearnet over the span of a couple of days and as things stand now, the motivation behind the attacks are anyone’s guesses.

In 2014, a ground-breaking invention made its debut. Referred to as Grams, this was an exclusive darknet search engine designed to ease access to...

When there are so many smartphones on the market, you might often find yourself intimidated by the choices. Besides design, specifications and pricing, privacy...

TextSecure is an open-source messaging app for exchanging encrypted messages made by Open Whisper Systems. All messages send through TextSecure are end-to-end encrypted, meaning that they are encrypted before being sent and decrypted after arriving on recipient’s device. This makes it impossible for any third party to intercept sensitive data being traded.

The Office of Personal Management seems to be paying too much money for an identity theft protection program for the victims of its 2015 data breach.

The United States government has just passed a ban regarding the use and operation of security software developed by a leading Russian brand, citing...

Introduction: Tails is an operating system aimed at protecting the user’s anonymity.Unlike a standard operating system like Windows or Linux, it does not need to...

A few days ago, hackers have reportedly released more than 20,000 confidential FBI employee data to the internet. The exposure came only a day after...

Prosecutors claim that a National Security Agency contractor has leaked a classified file showing details of Russia hacking voting vendors and breaching the local system.The...

Just what is privacy anyway? What is anonymity? Are they the same, or is one more desirable than the other? Are privacy and security...

A trio of families in Hong Kong who hosted rogue NSA contractor Edward Snowden in 2013 are seeking asylum in Canada.

Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, now lives as a fugitive in Moscow, Russia. He was charged with treason, as he was found guilty of leaking thousands of classified documents. During a recent interview, Edward Snowden argues that the retired general, David Petraeus, was responsible for having mishandled far more sensitive information than he ever did during his time in office.

FBI and DHS Data BreachesCops in East Midlands, England have arrested a 16 yr. old boy allegedly behind the FBI and DHS data breaches. The...

On May 2, 2016, a judge from the state of Sergipe ordered all mobile carriers across Brazil to block the popular messaging service Whatsapp for 72 hours.The ban was supposedly imposed because WhatsApp did not comply with the police and provide information during an ongoing investigation.

Over the past few years, there have been a lot of changes affecting the key technologies that power the internet.HTML is the dominant web...

Edward Snowden, the whistleblower, is of the belief that, in all probability, Russia is responsible for the alleged US National Security Agency (NSA) hack. Hackers allegedly got hold of digital arsenal or malware deployed by Equation Group, the cyber espionage unit that has links with the NSA.

“Loopix” is a newly developed anonymity network that can be an alternative to Tor, the popular dark web browser. The mix-based architecture of the...