Tor Project servers hacked

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 25, 2010

“The Tor project developers have advised users to update their
Tor anonymity software to version 0.2.1.22 or 0.2.2.7-alpha as soon
as possible. This is because, in early January, two of the
project’s seven directory authorities (moria1 and gabelmoo) as well
as the metrics.torproject.org statistics server were found to have
been hacked. Moria also contains the developers’ Git and
sub-version repositories.

“The developers say they took the servers off line shortly after
the intrusion was discovered.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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