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 VPN is free to use but is still in beta and intended for testing purposes only. Don’t use it for high-stakes or privacy-critical work. Attila covers software, apps and services, with a focus on ...

"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 ...

Curious about online anonymity, I ditched my usual browser and spent a week exclusively using the Tor Browser. While its privacy protections are impressive, I didn't expect how much it would change my ...

The easiest way to use the digital anonymity service Tor is through the Tor Browser. You download and use it like a regular browser, and it covers your digital ...

The Silk Road and NSA spying may be old news, but The Onion Router (Tor) continues to generate interest among Internet users seeking online anonymity. Tor isn’t all upside, though. As I found out, you ...

The study sought to find out which hidden Tor sites got the most traffic Most traffic to sites hidden on the Tor network go to those dealing in images of child sexual abuse a study suggests. The ...

At the start of December, the Tor Project’s support email inbox began receiving an unusual number of messages from users saying they were encountering problems accessing the digital anonymity service.

Twitter just struck a blow against government censorship, even if the tech giant won't come out and say so directly. Tor works by sending users' internet traffic through random servers, and encrypting ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Observing, pondering, and writing about tech. Generally in that order. Tor is software and a global network of servers that exist ...