Access to Calls, Texts, and Location Being Offered on the Dark Web In this day in age, hackers are constantly selling data such as calls, texts and location on the dark web, so it’s important the public understands how to prevent an attack. The internet rules over almost everything in our day-to-day lives. But do we truly know it? Is there something that lies beyond, invisible to us? Yes, there is! The dark web is a major part of the internet. It consists of online content within overlay networks that are inaccessible by conventional browsing methods like search engines and requires specific software, configurations and authorizations to access it. As the name suggests, a lot of shady activity takes place on the dark side of the internet. Hackers thrive within this space, and they’re always selling their hacked information to anyone on dark web markets who is interested. Your personal information might be listed for sale without you even realizing that you got ha...

Drug Barons Become Career Politicians: Why? Then drug barons begin manipulating state officials to help the drug trafficking business grow. Individuals who are interested in drug trafficking often have a few stages that guarantee the security of their business. In stage one, there is access to plenty of money, but then the second stage often involves low pay and dealing with cocaine. Then comes stage three, when drug barons begin manipulating officials of the state to eventually assist in helping grow the drug trafficking business. In stage four, drug lords make and enforce their own laws so as to evade arrest by security officials. Stage five is when drug barons invest huge sums of money into the economy, and this enables them to establish contact with politicians, which leads to stage six where a relationship is drawn up between the drug barons and politicians. Alternatively, the drug barons may opt to sponsor an election campaign of somebody they feel will safegu...

Cryptocurrencies: Decrypted The concept is nothing but a new way to pay for our day-to-day items online in a more secured way. By rigid definition, cryptocurrencies are digital methods of payment through which encryption protocols are used to generate and verify funds before any financial transaction is made online. But to most of us, the concept is nothing but a new way to pay for our day-to-day items in a more secure way. The first decentralized cryptocurrency in the world was Bitcoin, which is also now the most popular. It was created in 2009, supposedly by a person named Satoshi Nakamoto. Over the years, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gained a huge amount of popularity and also a lot of value in terms of price. In the early days when the concept was first gaining traction, the only cryptocurrency available was Bitcoin. In order to purchase Bitcoins, one had to mine for it using their computers. Now you can easily buy them online. The process of mining w...

Wikipedians Want to Create a Dark Web Version of Wikipedia Wikipedians are debating a possibility of launching a dark web version of the online encyclopedia as a way of circumventing government surveillance. It is clear that the threat posed by government surveillance is on the agenda even for the creators of the world’s most popular online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Former Wikimedia Vice President Cristian Consonni voiced this particular concern recently when he proposed the creation of a dark web version of Wikipedia, as a Tor hidden service accessible only via the Tor network. The online encyclopedia, which has not yet launched its dark web version, can still be accessed via the Tor browser albeit via avenues that are considerably less secure than a dedicated hidden service site would be. Tor’s popularity among activists and people living in countries with heavy internet censorship is irrefutably attributed to its ability to hide web traffic and route it through sev...

The Sanctuary Market Hacked by Cipher0007 The Sanctuary Market was attacked by an underground hacker nicknamed “Cipher0007,” who utilized a SQL injection flaw to compromise the site’s database. The steady increase in the popularity of darknet marketplaces in recent years has attracted the attention of two perfectly contrasting sides—criminals and law enforcement authorities. The anonymous nature of these platforms provides considerable safety to online criminals. At the same time, law enforcement agencies have revamped their efforts to combat these criminal activities facilitated over the dark web. Now it’s not only darknet platforms that have to worry about law enforcement, but hackers who ironically operate on the very same platforms also have to be cautious with their behavior. There have been increasing cases of hackers targeting dark web marketplaces for financial gain and other motives. This is the case for a darknet marketplace called The Sanctuary Market, whic...

University Student Gets Busted with Weed Which Was Bought from The Dark Web With the dark web being out there along with tutorials on how to access it, it is easier now more than ever before for kids to buy drugs Most of us will encounter someone smoking Marijuana sometime in their life. But watching someone get busted right in front of your eyes is a whole different story. It is no doubt that kids these days have access to more information than ever. With the dark web being out there along with tutorials on how to access it, it is easier now more than ever before for kids to buy drugs. All it takes is the simple act of buying Bitcoin and depositing it to a digital wallet on the dark web. It is that easy! This makes it even more difficult for parents and law enforcement agencies to control. Technology is hard for parents to control in this day of age. It is no longer kids meeting up in alleyways, but getting drugs from the comfort of their very own home. With that in ...

Deep Web Scam Sites There are lots of markets and independent vendors on the deep web and dark web to acquire goods and services from, but many them are scams. If you’ve been on the deepweb, you have probably heard of  the Hidden Wiki . You may think of the site as reliable and a good place to access darkweb links to trusted vendors – but you have to know that the real scams are in sites like the Hidden Wiki. Before we go into the subject of the instability of the Hidden Wiki, some background information about it is important. The Hidden Wiki is a site which provides links to sites on the dark web (for stolen PayPal sites, stolen credits cards, etc.). The site was founded in late 2011 with its promise to provide links to Deep Web websites. In August 2013, the site was switched to being hosted on Freedom Hosting. With Freedom Hosting having gone down later that year, the website went down with it. That did not stop other people from making clones of the Hidde...

A Practical Guide to the Theory and Practice of Online Privacy 396 Just what is privacy anyway? What is anonymity? Are they the same, or is one more desirable than the other? Are privacy and security the same thing? The answers to these questions are probably as varied as the people whom you ask. Let’s start with privacy. What is privacy? According to  The International Association of Privacy Professionals : privacy is the right to be left alone, or freedom from interference or intrusion. Information privacy is the right to have some control over how your personal information is collected and used. The world of technology has made it increasingly difficult to maintain this freedom from intrusion or interference, and maintaining full control over our personal information is essentially a thing of the past. Privacy is about no one seeing what you do, but possibly knowing who you are. It’s about content, confidentiality, and keeping secrets – whether created ...

Company of Supposed Bitcoin Creator, Sold to Investors nChain Holdings announced that it has been sold to a private equity firm. The company is related to Bitcoin innovator Craig Wright. Craig Wright is once again in the public spotlight as a private equity firm acquired a company associated with him this past week. Wright has been a controversial figure in the Bitcoin community with the unsupported claims that he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the supposed inventor of Bitcoin. According to a report by Reuters , nChain Holdings was sold to private equity firm SICAV, PLC in what may be the biggest acquisition related to Bitcoin and blockchain technology. nChain Holdings is a group of companies that are based on blockchain technology. The organization boasts of a team of more than 60 scientific researchers and other personnel based in several countries. These claims are still unconfirmed as information regarding the team members in unavailable on the company’s website, though...

Demand for Bitcoin Continues to Soar in Venezuela Venezuela’s financial crisis and political turmoil prompted citizens to switch to Bitcoin for transactions. Due to widespread acceptability, this upward trend may continue. Venezuela has been in the news for all the wrong reasons of late. The economy has taken a tumble and its currency has lost its value, with one U.S. dollar fetching as many as 6,000 Bolivars, the Venezuelan currency........ The once-popular President Maduro is virtually under siege, and there are agitations and protests all over. The alternate currency Bitcoin appears to have attracted the average citizen in the country, and people have switched to this cryptocurrency. The real trigger point was last December, when the president made a decision to withdraw the 100 Bolivar note from circulation. It turned out that he had to withdraw the decision a few days later, but the chaos that erupted across the country drove many towards using cryptocurren...