Researchers Reveal DNS Resolvers Can Deanonymize Tor Users

Researchers Reveal DNS Resolvers Can Deanonymize Tor Users

Users running a Tor exit node should steer away from using public DNS resolvers, though. Google and OpenDNS are very common solutions, but they pose a security risk. Over the past few months, there has been a lot of focus on the Tor project. Government officials are not keen on this anonymization software by any means. Researchers the KTH Royal Institute of Technology have come up with a way to anonymize Tor users. All it takes is monitoring the DNS resolvers used by individual Tor users. DefecTor, as this attack is called, uses the DNS lookups accompanying regular Tor network traffic.....


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