Agora Marketplace is a Greece based market place where stuffs are sold and bought and this is very much done over the internet. Lately there have been issues regarding the site of the marketplace and people have started worrying about the privacy and security of the website. This brought about the requirement of the Agora Marketplace URL to be changed and thus now a new URL is used in order to access the website for dealing with the company and buying and selling products from them and vice versa. The OpenSSL library which is responsible for the privacy of many websites were having some problems earlier this week and many of the contents of this library became public, making the eavesdroppers and hackers to have easy access over the websites. This happened because of a serious bug that made the contents to be public and were rarely mendable. Referring the bug with the name of ‘heartbleed’, it made the admins of certain websites to worry a lot and some had to purposely change the URL of their websites even when it had a lot to do with the degradation of the popularity of the website in concern. This bug was responsible for the eavesdroppers to know passwords and secret keys that were used to encrypt information,thus making the privacy and security of the websites to be completely under stake.
Agora Marketplace URL has been renewed to be http://agorahooawayyfoe.onion which is devoid of the faults the old URL had. Agora happens to be a hidden procedure and the services provided are also hidden. The tendency of the privacy of sites like this be exploited is because of the hidden conditions that these sites have. Thus the hackers and attackers generally look for the key to break the secrecy and have access to the contents of the site and thus make it public and use it in one’s own interest. The website of the Agora Marketplace stood on the Tor software but the bundle of the TOR software has become very much attack prone and thus the software has been changed and a whole new URL has been set for the website.
The website admins therefore has released a document regarding the change of the Agora Marketplace URL and has made sure the customers and the people accessing the website regularly understand the circumstances that made the change to happen. They have stated that the website could not be affected much because just the little flinch of information that they got about the server of getting exploited made them take this step and they got into doing their job instantly. The bug in concern is considered to be a really dangerous one and is considered to have the power to take down all at once. So the precaution was worth being taken and the outcome was, too. They have also planned on taking down the market for a couple of days so that they can invest and find out the reasons and causes behind such a treacherous event.
http://agorahooawayyfoe.onion is the new Agora Marketplace URL and the previous Agora Marketplace URL is not in use anymore.
