[URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23984814[/URL]
Fox-IT wiki: [URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox-IT[/URL]
[QUOTE][B]Cyber-thieves are behind a big leap in the number of computers connecting to the Tor anonymous web browsing system, a security company has said.[/B]
The number of connections to Tor almost doubled in late August.
Some thought the rise was caused by people in repressive regimes using Tor to escape official scrutiny.
But Dutch security company Fox-IT said it had evidence it had been caused by cybercriminals using Tor to control legions of hijacked home PCs.
[B]
Hidden network[/B]
The sharp leap in Tor numbers began on 19 August.
Before that date about 500,000 connections a day were being made to the network.
Within a week, the number of connections had hit 1.5 million and has continued to grow.
[URL="https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html"]
The latest update from Tor[/URL] suggests about three million connections are now being made on a daily basis.
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The allegations that Tor's spike in users is directly related to cyber thieves comes directly from a company who is out to make money on people being afraid of cyber thieves. I would ignore that, and instead wonder about the true reason behind the sharp increase in users on the network.
Considering the fact that the new connections are only accessing hidden service and are not using it to access the Internet, I'm pretty sure there's no conspiracy here.
[QUOTE=Winner;42125219][I]cyber-thieves[/I][/QUOTE]
where's that stock image with the guy wearing a facemask and gloves while holding a laptop
[QUOTE=Rellow;42125282]where's that stock image with the guy wearing a facemask and gloves while holding a laptop[/QUOTE]
I literally searched cyber thieve and got it :v:
[IMG]http://stevensonfinancialmarketing.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/cyber_thief.png[/IMG]
Oh no, all these hackers keep away!
[img]http://static4.depositphotos.com/1012377/322/i/450/dep_3225125-Computer-hacker-attack.jpg[/img]
That's more than the other TOR.
Wasn't this already posted about? And didn't it turn out to be the result of a botnet?
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[QUOTE=asteroidrules;42125421]Wasn't this already posted about? And didn't it turn out to be the result of a botnet?[/QUOTE]
Yes. The news article linked was posted on the sixth. Late as fuck.
For some reason, the title made me think Tor Usage was a person, and he was shooting up heroin... Didn't know what Tor was off the top of my head...
[QUOTE=IdiotStorm;42125424]
most people are switching over to tor for anonymity because of all of the NSA's bullshit and such
although it's not really that anonymous since[B] the government owns and operates a good amount of exit nodes[/B][/QUOTE] Source?
[QUOTE=Winner;42125350][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Fdi0GHx.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ZwIQhKK.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/fOQJaPR.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/95ph0Ju.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/rNwfm5O.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/FshWpub.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
[t]http://bbsimg.ngfiles.com/1/22294000/ngbbs4d279dd85c79d.jpg[/t]
oldest trick in the book lmao fucking newfags
[QUOTE=J!NX;42125654][t]http://bbsimg.ngfiles.com/1/22294000/ngbbs4d279dd85c79d.jpg[/t]
oldest trick in the book lmao fucking newfags[/QUOTE]
Safe telephone sex.
[QUOTE=Leestons;42125470]Source?[/QUOTE]
We'll never know for certain, but a lot of the Tor nodes receive an awful lot of traffic, and it doesn't make much commercial sense for a company to run a node, so you either have people with the ability to fund a Tor node because they want to, or because they want the traffic going through it.
You've also got the fact that the main sponsor when it was created was the Navy, and Tor doesn't really protect the data traversing the network (To work, an exit node has to be able to decrypt it), which makes it just about perfect for government spying purposes.
[QUOTE=Leestons;42125470]Source?[/QUOTE]
Dunno about a citable source, but I do know they have to run some, since it's piss easy to run an exit node and just collate all the data that exits.
We've known about it for the same time we knew the NSA was collecting data.
[QUOTE=Leestons;42125470]Source?[/QUOTE]
Ive read about that (exit nodes being gov servers) on some tech forum/news site. Cant seem to dig it up, though wouldnt be surprised if I did find a source.
[URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/06/the-feds-pays-for-60-percent-of-tors-development-can-users-trust-it/"]Feds pay for 60 percent of Tor’s development[/URL]
[URL="http://boingboing.net/2013/09/07/90-percent-of-tor-keys-can-be.html"]90 percent of Tor keys can be broken by NSA[/URL]
[QUOTE=C47;42128660]90 percent of Tor keys can be broken by NSA[/URL][/QUOTE]
only if you use 2.3 and not 2.4
[QUOTE=C47;42128660]
[URL="http://boingboing.net/2013/09/07/90-percent-of-tor-keys-can-be.html"]90 percent of Tor keys can be broken by NSA[/URL][/QUOTE]
They can just, you know, not use an old version of tor? Listen to the "Upgrade now" message that is in their face when they load up the browser if they're using the bundle.
It's pretty obvious thought. The 1024 bit RSA keys can be broken these days. Moore's law applies here.
It's pretty standard to use 2048 bit or 4096 if you're being paranoid. Google uses 2048.
[QUOTE=AtomiCal;42129489]They can just, you know, not use an old version of tor? Listen to the "Upgrade now" message that is in their face when they load up the browser if they're using the bundle.
It's pretty obvious thought. The 1024 bit RSA keys can be broken these days. Moore's law applies here.
It's pretty standard to use 2048 bit or 4096 if you're being paranoid. Google uses 2048.[/QUOTE]
Lol they don't even have to go that far. As the article says, just an upgrade to 1025 will double the difficulty of cracking it by brute force, which is what the NSA does basically.
Not much of a surprise. Sure, some of it is probably related to illegal activity, but considering firewalls exist and Tor is a portable proxy, why wouldn't its popularity shoot up?
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