Tor anonymizing network Compromised by French researchers
Oct 24, 2011
Tor anonymizing network Compromised by French researchers French researchers from ESIEA , a French engineering school, have found and exploited some serious vulnerabilities in the TOR network. They performed an inventory of the network, finding 6,000 machines, many of whose IPs are accessible publicly and directly with the system's source code. They demonstrated that it is possible to take control of the network and read all the messages that circulate. But there are also hidden nodes, the Tor Bridges, which are provided by the system that in some cases. Researchers have developed a script that, once again, to identify them. They found 181. " We now have a complete picture of the topography of Tor ," said Eric Filiol. The specific attack involves creating a virus and using it to infect such vulnerable systems in a laboratory environment, and thus decrypting traffic passing through them again via an unknown, unmentioned mechanism. Finally, traffic is redirected towards ...
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