There's a secret component of the internet that's far bigger than the network sections you're using every day.
You use what is referred to as the "Surface Web" or "Visible Web" when checking your email, shopping online or Facebooking.
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The Visible Web consists of websites, like Google or Yahoo, which are indexed by standard search engines. There are at least 4 billions index web pages according to one survey.
Although this appears huge, a much greater portion of the web is hidden below the Surface Internet and not indexed.
This part of the site is called Deep Site.
Often, with "Dark Web," you'll hear the word Deep Web used interchangeably, but they're not exactly the same.
As per the Zur, the "deep web" is actually 90 percent of the site, which is just below the worldwide site level. Companies, web developers and websites are asking Google not to search for or categorize this content, so it doesn't come up when you do a web search. However, all of this can be reached when you type in a direct web address. You may be aware of it, but search engines won't tell us about it. That's the network deep down.
As these websites are not indexed by standard search engines, special software that disguises your IP address can only be used to access these.
The Onion Router, known as TOR, is the most common software for accessing the Dark Web.
The Dark Web was much smaller in size than the Deep Web, and consisted of various parts of the web. Yet because of its anonymous marketplaces that often sell illegal products such as drugs or weapons, it is perhaps most popular.
That's what most people think about as they hear of the hidden or confined network where there's a lot of illegal activity. But as Zur points out, with the right means, anyone can immerse themselves in this dark web. The dark archive is made up of websites that use the public internet that need unique access codes, because search engines are not screened to maintain anonymity. The corrupted details are exchanged, marketed that exploited for commercial, political or personal benefit.
This includes financial fraud platforms selling stolen account data, such as credit card numbers or account data from PayPal.
Some sites sell counterfeit drugs, some sell imitated and stolen pharmaceuticals; you can buy weapons, pornography and child pornography.
And you'll find false names, fake passports and all manner of fake documents.
Those descriptions are hopefully clearing things up. And you can also, on call, capture "Cyber Criminals, Threat Intelligence and the Dark Web."
In addition to an overview of the dark web, Zur used the online threat analysis course to demonstrate how you can scan the dark web for your information or knowledge about your business and then use it to proactively defend what your organization trusts it most.
Founded in 2011, Silk Road has developed an Amazon-like marketplace for vendors to buy and sell goods using Bitcoin, an untraceable digital currency. The user-friendly approach to the Silk Road and its guaranteed anonymity helped it rapidly become the go-to website for the contraband.
The site had accrued 1,400 vendors and 957,079 registered users by the time it was shut down in 2013, and it had brokered more than $214 million worth of transactions according to the FBI.
Since the demise of Silk Path multiple illegal marketplaces such as Agora and AlphaBay have taken their place, and business is actually rising.
Comedian Hannibal Buress made a similar error in a Webby Awards Funny or Die spoof called "The Deep Webbys." The awards include "Most Stolen Identity," "Leakiest Wiki," and "The People's Choice Award for the Choicest Men's Trafficking." While his presentation is flawless, this is yet another example of deep web being mistaken for the dark web. The kinds of illegal activities and documents named in those awards are acquired, exchanged, and stored on the dark web. The "Deep Webbys" is too large a term; the awards should be labeled "Dark Webbys," a distinction between Buress, Funny or Die and the A.V. Club was absent.
House of Cards, Orphan Black and Portlandia are seen on TV, all of them had plot lines that recently included the dark web. Have the vocabulary of those shows been confused? When researcher Lucas Goodwin investigates the inconsistencies of Frank Underwood's House of Cards plot, he discovers he needs to dig deeper. His more technically focused coworker explains to him the deep web: "Using conventional search engines, 96 per cent of the web is not available. It's mostly useless, but it's where you go to find anything and everything.
Baby porn, theft of bitcoin, mail order drugs, hackers hire ... "While that is technically accurate, Wired's Kim Zetter told NPR that this is only partly correct:" There should be a distinction between what's called the Deep Web and what's known as the Darknet sites."Orphan Black is a little bit better. Cal, a tech-startup-wiz, turned lumbersexual reclusive, described his efforts to help Sarah and her family, saying, "I followed that person on the Darknet, and I saw that person on the Darknet.
Checks it out. The Dark Web and Darknet make the same connection. However, Portlandia simply confuses the words when the mayor exclaims, in an attempt to buy fireworks for July 4th, Oh, this deep web has it all! Pistols ... medicines ... bombs! Even the Mayor is not a trained genius and we should condemn him for his mistake.
You use what is referred to as the "Surface Web" or "Visible Web" when checking your email, shopping online or Facebooking.
The Visible Web consists of websites, like Google or Yahoo, which are indexed by standard search engines. There are at least 4 billions index web pages according to one survey.
Although this appears huge, a much greater portion of the web is hidden below the Surface Internet and not indexed.
This part of the site is called Deep Site.
Let’s explain World Wide Web
It is just the smallest part of the site, which is surprising given that for any search, Google usually produces millions of results. It is the platform that most of us use and visit every day, where links and knowledge can be found, and also relate to each other in some way. Google and other web search engines have web crawlers scanning, locating, and categorizing this information so it can pop up when you look for it.Let’s explain The Deep web
So here is the easiest way of thinking about the Deep Web: it's all the firewalls info. Think of user accounts, company intranets, web archives, password- websites, etc. According to some figures, this portion of the internet is estimated to be 400 to 500 times bigger than the Surface Network.Often, with "Dark Web," you'll hear the word Deep Web used interchangeably, but they're not exactly the same.
As per the Zur, the "deep web" is actually 90 percent of the site, which is just below the worldwide site level. Companies, web developers and websites are asking Google not to search for or categorize this content, so it doesn't come up when you do a web search. However, all of this can be reached when you type in a direct web address. You may be aware of it, but search engines won't tell us about it. That's the network deep down.
Let’s explain The Dark Web
The Dark Web essentially refers to a community of websites that exist inside the Deep Web, which are encrypted, but hosted anonymously.As these websites are not indexed by standard search engines, special software that disguises your IP address can only be used to access these.
The Onion Router, known as TOR, is the most common software for accessing the Dark Web.
The Dark Web was much smaller in size than the Deep Web, and consisted of various parts of the web. Yet because of its anonymous marketplaces that often sell illegal products such as drugs or weapons, it is perhaps most popular.
That's what most people think about as they hear of the hidden or confined network where there's a lot of illegal activity. But as Zur points out, with the right means, anyone can immerse themselves in this dark web. The dark archive is made up of websites that use the public internet that need unique access codes, because search engines are not screened to maintain anonymity. The corrupted details are exchanged, marketed that exploited for commercial, political or personal benefit.
This includes financial fraud platforms selling stolen account data, such as credit card numbers or account data from PayPal.
Some sites sell counterfeit drugs, some sell imitated and stolen pharmaceuticals; you can buy weapons, pornography and child pornography.
And you'll find false names, fake passports and all manner of fake documents.
Those descriptions are hopefully clearing things up. And you can also, on call, capture "Cyber Criminals, Threat Intelligence and the Dark Web."
In addition to an overview of the dark web, Zur used the online threat analysis course to demonstrate how you can scan the dark web for your information or knowledge about your business and then use it to proactively defend what your organization trusts it most.
Let’s Understand Markets In Darknet
Silk Road was really the first anonymous platform on the Dark Internet to flourish.Founded in 2011, Silk Road has developed an Amazon-like marketplace for vendors to buy and sell goods using Bitcoin, an untraceable digital currency. The user-friendly approach to the Silk Road and its guaranteed anonymity helped it rapidly become the go-to website for the contraband.
The site had accrued 1,400 vendors and 957,079 registered users by the time it was shut down in 2013, and it had brokered more than $214 million worth of transactions according to the FBI.
Since the demise of Silk Path multiple illegal marketplaces such as Agora and AlphaBay have taken their place, and business is actually rising.
Could dark web and deep web concepts be interchangeable?
The common misunderstanding regarding the dark web and the deep web is the interchangeability of these two words. It really isn't real. Take, for eg, this term in Business Insider: 'The Dark (or Deep) Web, which refers to parts of the Internet that are usually inaccessible to users without special anonymizing tools, first came to prominence with the Silk Road case.' While, indeed, both the deep and the dark web were featured in Silk Road news stories, this writer simply refers exclusively to the dark web, which is the dark web.Comedian Hannibal Buress made a similar error in a Webby Awards Funny or Die spoof called "The Deep Webbys." The awards include "Most Stolen Identity," "Leakiest Wiki," and "The People's Choice Award for the Choicest Men's Trafficking." While his presentation is flawless, this is yet another example of deep web being mistaken for the dark web. The kinds of illegal activities and documents named in those awards are acquired, exchanged, and stored on the dark web. The "Deep Webbys" is too large a term; the awards should be labeled "Dark Webbys," a distinction between Buress, Funny or Die and the A.V. Club was absent.
House of Cards, Orphan Black and Portlandia are seen on TV, all of them had plot lines that recently included the dark web. Have the vocabulary of those shows been confused? When researcher Lucas Goodwin investigates the inconsistencies of Frank Underwood's House of Cards plot, he discovers he needs to dig deeper. His more technically focused coworker explains to him the deep web: "Using conventional search engines, 96 per cent of the web is not available. It's mostly useless, but it's where you go to find anything and everything.
Baby porn, theft of bitcoin, mail order drugs, hackers hire ... "While that is technically accurate, Wired's Kim Zetter told NPR that this is only partly correct:" There should be a distinction between what's called the Deep Web and what's known as the Darknet sites."Orphan Black is a little bit better. Cal, a tech-startup-wiz, turned lumbersexual reclusive, described his efforts to help Sarah and her family, saying, "I followed that person on the Darknet, and I saw that person on the Darknet.
Checks it out. The Dark Web and Darknet make the same connection. However, Portlandia simply confuses the words when the mayor exclaims, in an attempt to buy fireworks for July 4th, Oh, this deep web has it all! Pistols ... medicines ... bombs! Even the Mayor is not a trained genius and we should condemn him for his mistake.
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