FBI Admits It Controlled Freedom Hosting Tor Servers

The Irish court last week, the FBI acknowledged the United States for the first time that they actually controlled the company - operator Tor- Freedom Hosting services for some time. Previously, a number of independent IT experts suspect the FBI or other U.S. power ministry to use Tor-exploits to control anonymous online transactions.

Eric Marquez, has dual US - Irish citizenship is now trying to fight extradition from Ireland to the United States, where he is accused of four counts related to the spread of pornography on the Internet. Now the Irish court released on bail Marquez . Sam Marquez is accused that he ran a hidden Tor- service Freedom Hosting, which housed the child pornography sites.

The FBI and Microsoft neutralized large kacker network

FBI and Microsoft jointly neutralized botnet Citadel, by which criminals stole more than $ 500 million. This was reported by the newspaper The Financial Times.

Total number of computers connected by a network Citadel, the two organizations is estimated at five million cars. The network consisted of more than a thousand botnets, each of which, in turn, consisted of thousands of infected computers. Hacking network acted in more than 90 countries.

As stated by the company Microsoft, completely destroy the Citadel is impossible because of its scale and fragmentation. The company has recommended to use antivirus and more frequent updates your computer's OS.