Have you ever wondered where your credit card number goes when a big company like Target or Yahoo gets hacked? Chances are it winds up on something called the dark web. Stephen Cobb, senior security ...

Welcome to onionland. This is your guide to understanding the dark web: what's on the hidden Internet, how to access it, and how it works under the hood.

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 ...

Every day, most of us leave trails of online breadcrumbs behind us, disconnected pieces of data that a determined sleuth could connect to learn about our activities and perhaps break through our veil ...

Last week, one of the dark web's most prominent drug marketplaces—Archetyp—was shut down in an international, multi-agency law enforcement operation following years of investigations. It was touted as ...

It’s an ominous-sounding term that crops up in discussions about internet security. So you might be wondering what the dark web is and how it can affect you. You could find yourself in trouble if your ...

A dark web marketplace named '2easy' is becoming a significant player in the sale of stolen data "Logs" harvested from roughly 600,000 devices infected with information-stealing malware. "Logs" are ...

In the realm of the Internet, few things carry as infamous a reputation as the Dark Web. Widely utilized for cybercrime, theft, money laundering, terrorism, and human abuse, it remains the target of ...

From leaked credentials to ransomware plans, the dark web is full of early warning signs — if you know where and how to look. Here’s how security leaders can monitor these hidden spaces and act before ...

A man points to the webpage of an online shop that sells machine guns on the dark web in Germany on November 12, 2016. Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images When you think of the dark web, ...

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Mike Wilson is the Founder & CTO of Enzoic, a cybersecurity company that helps prevent account takeover of employee and customer accounts. The number of data breaches shows no signs of slowing down, ...