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 ...

The Tor Browser makes the tricky work of surfing the Web anonymously as easy as using any other browser, but with a significant performance hit. PC hardware is nice, but it’s not much use without ...

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 ...

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 IP address leaking issue only affects Tor browsers on Mac and Linux devices (Windows and Tails Tor users are safe for now). We Are Segment CEO Filippo Cavallarin identified the issue as a bug in ...

The Tor web browser, which has about 2 million users who are anonymized with a combination of encryption and rerouting all traffic multiple times, may not be so anonymous after all. That's according ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

A recently fixed security vulnerability that affected both the Firefox and Tor browsers had a highly unusual characteristic that caused it to threaten users only during temporary windows of time that ...