The dark web got just a little bit brighter thanks to the efforts of Facebook and the Tor project. The pair, with help from many others, has successfully petitioned the Internet Engineering Task Force ...

The Tor Project is preparing a fix for a bug that has been abused for the past years to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against dark web (.onion) websites. Barring any unforeseen ...

The Tor Project proposed some defense schemes that could be used in the future to limit the impact of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that have been plaguing defend dark web (Onion) sites ...

A large number of the Tor-anonymized domains recently seized in a crackdown on illegal darknet services were clones or imposter sites, according to an analysis published Monday. That conclusion is ...

In recent weeks, the number of "hidden services"—usually Web servers and other Internet services accessible by a ".onion" address on the Tor anonymizing network—has risen dramatically. After ...

Starting with the release of Tor Browser 9.5, websites can have their alternate .onion addresses advertised to Tor desktop users who have the 'Onion Location' option enabled. Sites that add the .onion ...

Law enforcement agencies on both sides of the Atlantic have remained bullish in the face of criticism of Operation Onymous, which claimed to have taken down 414 .onion domains from the Tor network. It ...

The so-called darknet, which is accessible via the anonymizing Tor network, has a reputation for being home to many disreputable sites. But now the biggest social network in the world is available via ...

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 ...