Child pornography, drugs and weapons sales and more — Gareth Owenson has spent the past five years of his life indexing and tracking the dark web, and over time his opinion of the Tor Project’s ...

The so-called surface web is accessible to all of us and is less interesting. No wonder you came here asking how to access the dark web. We know what you’re thinking, or some of you. Use Tor to visit ...

The term “dark web” conjures up images of a shadowy netherworld of cybercrime, espionage, drugs, and guns. In reality “dark web” sites are simply websites ending in .onion that need to be accessed ...

If you've paid any attention to online marketplaces for illegal goods like the now-defunct Silk Road or the FBI's investigations into criminal in cyberspace, chances are you've heard the term "dark ...

The dark web isn't something you can just stumble upon, and that's a good thing. Although it's often used for transactions and conversations that need to remain anonymous, sites on the dark web can ...

A ransomware group may have leaked personal data for hundreds of thousands of people onto the dark web last week after the group stole data from the city of Columbus in July. But this dark web isn't a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alex Vakulov is a cybersecurity expert focused on consumer security. The internet can be thought of as a vast iceberg, with the ...

Gathering threat intelligence, finding the perpetrators of cyber attacks and bringing down whole ransomware gangs are some of the ways the dark web is used by defenders. The term “dark web” may paint ...

The dark web often feels like a mystery, hidden beneath the surface of the internet that most people use every day. But to understand how scams and cybercrimes actually work, you need to know what ...

The internet you know—the one you're surfing to read this article—is just the tip of the iceberg. Beneath the surface lies the dark web: a hidden layer of the internet that's invisible to most users, ...