The Silk Road and NSA spying may be old news, but The Onion Router (Tor) continues to generate interest among Internet users seeking online anonymity. Tor isn’t all upside, though. As I found out, you ...

A method for anonymous communications over a wide area network such as the Internet. Onion routing hides the names of the parties that are communicating as well as the data by encrypting the payload ...

A few years ago, the best way to put a device or project online was by hacking a router. With an inconspicuous Linksys WRT54G held onto a project with baling wire, anything can connect to the Internet ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Tor is free and open-source software for enabling anonymous communication by directing Internet traffic through a ...

Most of the stories coming out the Black Hat and Def Con security conferences highlight the latest crop of horrendous security flaws discovered by hackers. But it’s not all doom and gloom. There were ...

Researchers in the U.S. say they’ve successfully shown how attackers could compromise a network designed to make it harder to trace Internet surfers and the Web sites they are viewing. The researchers ...

Two veteran coders have teamed up to create a kind of Google for the anonymous underweb. Aaron Swartz, a Reddit developer, and Virgil Griffith, creator of WikiScanner, have created a new service ...