Media coverage roundup: Suspicious Tor node research by Professor Guevara Noubir
Professor Guevara Noubir and PhD student Amirali Sanatinia conducted research on the Tor network, a group of volunteer-operated servers that allows people to improve their privacy and security on the Internet.
This work has been widely covered around the world by a variety of news sources as listed below.
8/8/16
- Tech Republic: Why Tor and privacy may no longer be synonymous
7/30/16
- Hospodářské noviny: Bezpečnostní svodka: Tanečky kolem bezpečného internetu a otisky mrtvého muže
7/29/16
7/27/16
- Extreme Tech: Researchers find more than 100 Tor nodes that are snooping on users
- Tor Project Blog: The New Research from Northeastern University
- ZDNet Japan: 不審な動きをするTorノードを多数発見–今後のリリースで対応へ
- Security Intelligence: Researchers Find Snoops in Tor Anonymity Network With Honey Onions
- Tech Worm: More than 100 Tor nodes have been snooping on you!!!
- Developpez: Une centaine de nœuds sur le réseau Tor utilisés pour espionner des services cachés
7/26/16
- Atlas Obscura: Found: Nodes in an Anonymity-Protecting Network That Are Actually Spying on Users
- Blogchain Info: Researchers Discover Tor Nodes Spying on the Network
- Naked Security: “Honey Onions” probe the Dark Web: at least 3% of Tor nodes are rogues
- The Register: Boffins snoop on snooping Tor nodes
- Golem.de: Über 100 spionierende Tor-Nodes
7/25/16
- Security Week: Many Tor Relays Found Snooping on Dark Web Services
- Helpnet Security: Researchers discover 110 snooping Tor nodes
- Bitcoin: Researchers Discover Tor Nodes Spying on the Network
7/24/16
7/23/16
- International Business Times: Dark Web sites using Tor being spied on by malicious computers
- BetaNews: Dark Web sites using Tor being spied on by malicious computers
7/22/2016
7/16/16
7/11/16
7/8/16
- Schneier on Security: Researchers Discover Tor Nodes Designed to Spy on Hidden Services