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Email Encryption Service Provider ‘ProtonMail’ Now on Tor ProtonMail Takes Email Privacy to a Whole New Level by Adding Tor Network’s Support ProtonMail, launched in 2014 by a group of MIT and CERN experts, is the largest email encryption service provider in the world having more than two million users. It is the preferred emailing platform of activists and journalists who need to keep information confidential. In its latest announcement, ProtonMail’s co-founder Dr. Andy Yen stated that they would allow the users to directly access their email accounts via Tor network so that they could counter steps taken by authoritative governments across the globe to minimize user privacy. Dr. Yen said that it is inevitable to avoid censorship in some countries and they have been “proactively working to prevent this.” Dr. Yen further acknowledged that the reason why they have chosen Tor is that “Tor provides a way to circumvent certain Internet blocks so imp...

167 Million LinkedIn Passwords Put on Sale By a Hacker LinkedIn suffered a  massive data breach  in which more than 6 Million users accounts login details, including encrypted passwords, were posted online by a Russian hacker. Now, it turns out that it was not just 6 Million users who got their login details stolen. Almost after 4 years, a hacker under the nickname  "Peace"  is offering for sale what he/she claims to be the database of 167 Million emails and hashed passwords, which included 117 Million already cracked passwords, belonging to LinkedIn users. The hacker, who is selling the stolen data on the illegal Dark Web marketplace " The Real Deal " for 5 Bitcoins (roughly $2,200), has  spoken  to Motherboard, confirming these logins come from the 2012 data breach. Since the passwords have been initially encrypted with the SHA1 algorithm, with "no salt," it just took ' LeakedSource ', the paid search engine for hacked data,  7...

  Phineas Fisher who cracked the Hacking Team publishes a detailed video about how to hack After hitting headlines for donating   $11000 in bitcoins to an anti-ISIS group in Syria , Phineas Fisher is back in news. Phineas Fisher or Hack Back is the alias of the hacker who pwned the websites of spying gadgets and surveillance software providers Hacking Team and Gamma Group. After indulging in philanthropy with stolen money, Phineas Fisher has decided to teach interested wannabe hackers on how he hacks into websites. He has released a “how-to” video, detailing various hacking techniques. The hacking tutorial video released by Phineas Fisher presents step-by-step process of his latest hack, the Spain’s Catalan police union website called Sindicat De Mossos d’Esquadra (SME). Phineas Fisher is not new to this sort of thing. Earlier, after his mega exploit of pwning Hacking Team, Phineas Fisher had made public a similar video detailing how he hacked in...