Millions of child predators are forming sprawling online communities on the dark web using the Tor network, where criminal behavior escalates through the sharing of child sexual abuse material, grooming strategies and normalization of exploitation, experts say. Despite repeated warnings of a growing number of predators taking advantage of it, Tor’s developers have taken no...Read More

Hackers on the “dark web” claimed to be selling information stolen from the Office of Personnel Management. A recent study found that more than 80 percent of dark web activity was related to pedophila. And if you’ve heard of bitcoin, chances are the story had to do with a dark web transaction involving something illicit. But what is the...Read More

On May 15, at the headquarters of cybersecurity firm AhnLab in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, experts showed The Dong-A Ilbo, a monitor displaying the dark web, a hidden part of the internet accessible only through specialized browsers. They revealed that a steady flow of hacked South Korean personal information is being bought and sold at high...Read More

Communication among devices in computer networking is primarily dependent on how systems recognize and get to each other. One of the lesser known yet crucial stages of this whole process is ARP (Address Resolution Protocol), a concept that, much like Dark Web Search Engines, helps systems identify the right destination before establishing a connection. In...Read More

When you do a simple Web search on a topic, the results that pop up aren’t the whole story. The Internet contains a vast trove of information — sometimes called the “Deep Web” — that isn’t indexed by search engines: information that would be useful for tracking criminals, terrorist activities, sex trafficking and the spread...Read More

Equal parts eye-opening backgrounder, cautionary chronicle and impassioned plea for the defense, “Deep Web” begins as an illuminating overview of the Internet’s non-indexed digital substratum, then narrows its focus to recount the arrest, prosecution and conviction of Ross Ulbricht, alleged originator and supervisor of the notorious Silk Road online bazaar. Even after touring several fests...Read More

I have always been fascinated with the deep web, but until I started learning more about the privacy industry, it was always for the wrong reasons. Whenever the deep web was mentioned, it seemed like it was done so in a negative light: That hidden part of the internet where bad people engaged in nefarious...Read More

Deep in the Moroccan mountains a large brick building sat in the basin of a valley. It was night, and a dull light crept out from the windowless holes in the walls. I was in a car headed down a dirt track toward the building with a man calling himself “Patron” – Spanish for boss. It had taken us...Read More

In today’s data-rich world, companies, governments and individuals want to analyze anything and everything they can get their hands on – and the World Wide Web has loads of information. At present, the most easily indexed material from the web is text. But as much as 89 to 96 percent of the content on the...Read More

Bhopal: Sample this, A 19-year-old student, part of an online group on a social media website, from Bhopal ordered LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide), a banned substance online through a dark web via post from Kerala. The cops, in the guise of postmen, arrested the teenager red-handed receiving the drug ‘parcel’ from an actual postman. This...Read More