So you want to know what happens in the dark alleyways of the internet? The Dark Web was created by online activists who were trying to share content using the most private methods. Without a doubt, ...

The Brazilian police investigation that cracked a high-tech child porn ring earlier this month has shone a spotlight on the darker recesses of the web, an area which still poses massive technology ...

Yesterday, a rumor surfaced on deep web blog DeepDotWeb that Comcast was going to start blocking users of Tor, an anonymous web browser. Comcast Vice President Jason Livingood immediately and ...

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 ...

According to security firm iovation, a full 30.2% of transactions conducted from Tor in August were fraudulent. This compared with an overall fraud rate of 1% for all online transactions during the ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Drugs and hitmen are so overrated. True, you can get your hands on everything from brown tar heroin to a contract hacker on the deep web, but there’s actually more to do on that hidden section of the ...

At long last, the Tor Project is releasing an official web browser for Android users. The new Android app is available now as an alpha release in Google’s Play Store and on the experimental releases ...

The Tor web browser, which has about 2 million users who are anonymized with a combination of encryption and rerouting all traffic multiple times, may not be so anonymous after all. That's according ...