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Hacker leaks database of dark web hosting provider

by besus on 6/1/20, 4:27 PM with 1 comments

  • by diablo1 on 6/1/20, 4:31 PM

    All of those attempts to provide a hosting service on the darknet are doomed to fail, because they are a huge target and have many people constantly berating the servers with requests trying to get in. I know setting up a hidden service is not for the faint hearted, but there's nothing stopping people reading Tor's manpages and diving in, figuring out how to host a .onion. It can't be that hard surely.

    Doing mitigations on the server to avoid leaking the true location of the service could be tricky however, and requires you to do defense in depth. Apache is infamous for leaking details about the server.