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 ...

Web browsers are among the most essential pieces of software we use daily, yet we often take them for granted. Most users settle for whatever default ships with their devices -- and that's a mistake.

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 ...

None of that matters, of course, if users are easily duped into downloading a fake product laden with malicious code—something that’s recently become a cause for concern. “People with bad intentions ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...