The Tor Project and Tails merge operations.

On September 26, 2024, The Tor Project and Tails merged their operations, believing that integrating Tails into the Tor Project’s structure would facilitate better collaboration, improved sustainability, reduced overhead, and expanded training and outreach programs to address a wider range of digital threats.

Here’s the answer to at least one “hitman” service provider on the Dark Web. BesaMafia offer contract kills and other forms of intimidation for a price. Today it was announced they were closed for business with an explanation on their now-defunct hidden service.

Before discoursing the lengthy analysis of the Dark Web honeypot (the pedophile honeypot in particular), let’s answer the question that is surely on everyone’s mind – did the honeypot allow me to reveal the true identity of the person visiting the site?

Dark Web’s Assassination Market uses a faux gambling scheme to solicit bids for deadly contract hitmen

It exists in the deepest darkest corner of the web, the Dark Web, a hidden, encrypted part of the Internet only accessible through Tor. Its intent that is not entirely clear. Is it a sick form of gambling entertainment or is it a marketplace providing and anonymous bidding service for hired killers? Assassination Market claims…

If you are suspicious of Tor, tired of the laggy connection, or simply want a more stable means to ensure your connection is encrypted and secure, you can easily create a VPN connection through a VPN connection which ensures anonymity and hard-core encryption of your network stream (with kill switches to protect your identity if…

Word has hit the streets that the FBI has arrested Eric Eoin Marquesm the alleged owner of Freedom Hosting, the largest Deep Web hosting platform on the planet. The arrest was made in Ireland with the takedown reportedly disrupting the entire Tor network which is, sadly, the home of the majority of all illegal online…

Most hardcore geeks have been there and a few hardy souls visit it regularly. Known variously as the Deep Web, Deepnet, Invisible Web, Hidden Web, and Undernet, it is claimed to be several orders of magnitude larger than the surface web – if you can find the buried, hidden content that lies deep within. But…

Compute Cycle brings us a “deep dive” into Tor and how it works to provide anonymity in a new 10-minute video (see below). In addition, EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has a neat interactive graphic on their website that lets you visualize what data is visible to eavesdroppers when Tor and/or https is involved. Dive in…

Security researchers have identified a new botnet that is controlled by attackers from an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server running as a hidden service inside the Tor anonymity network. Unable to determine its real location or sniff its encrypted traffic, law enforcement are going to have a tough time shutting it down.