Wednesday, September 12, 2007

ToR Used to Snatch Embassy Passwords / eWeek, 11 September 2007
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2181811,00.asp
Lisa Vaas
"Ironically, the free tool is designed to allow users to communicate anonymously.
A Swedish security researcher who publicly posted 100 embassy, government and Fortune 500 e-mail passwords in late August has revealed that he used The Onion Router, or ToR, exit nodes outfitted with a packet sniffer to catch the unencrypted e-mail messages and passwords."