Tor routes data through at least three servers, and websites will only see the IP address of the last server, not yours. It has features to maximize your privacy, unlike standard web browsers that ...

The operators of at least one Tor proxy service was recently caught replacing Bitcoin addresses on ransomware ransom payment sites, diverting funds meant to pay for ransomware decrypters to the site's ...

Ask any hacker about the best ways to stay anonymous online and they're very likely to mention something called Tor. Tor (a.k.a., The Onion Router) is free software that keeps your online activity ...

Here's your beginner-friendly explainer on this privacy and security tool for online browsing, and how it works with VPNs. Rae Hodge was a senior editor at CNET. She led CNET's coverage of privacy and ...

“Tor” evokes an image of the dark web; a place to hire hitmen or buy drugs that, at this point, is overrun by feds trying to catch you in the act. The reality, however, is a lot more boring than that ...

Stop talking about the dark web, if only for Roger Dingledine’s sake. He’s the ponytailed and prominent cofounder of the Tor Project, the nonprofit behind the eponymous widespread anonymous ...

About 1.3 million IP addresses—including those used by Google, Yahoo, Craigslist, and Yelp—are turning users of the Tor anonymity network into second-class Web citizens by blocking them outright or ...

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 Internet is becoming harder to browse for users of Tor, the anonymity network that provides greater privacy, according to a new study. The blame can be placed largely on those who use Tor, short ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how bitcoin, crypto and blockchain can change the world. Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies have become a ...

G.M.H. and his co-founder, University of Utah communications professor Robert W. Gehl, met on the dark-web social network Galaxy. The two avid readers (G.M.H.’s pseudonym is inspired by 19th century ...