The dark web gets a bad reputation, but I've learned to navigate it safely for legitimate research and privacy purposes—without breaking any laws. I always start my dark web journey with the right ...

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 ...

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A consortium of U.S. and international law enforcement made 288 arrests and seized over $53 million in cash and cryptocurrency as part of an "unprecedented" dark-web drug enforcement action called ...

For the longest time, I thought the dark web was an impenetrable, tangled mass of secret websites frequented only by hackers and criminals. I certainly didn't know that there are several ways you can ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. When Google sends you an email that states, “Your personal ...

Google began offering “dark web reports” a while back, but the company has just announced the feature will be going away very soon. In an email to users of the service, Google says it will stop ...

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, ...

Google’s Dark Web Report goes dark forever next year. The company has announced that it will be shutting down its Dark Web Report, noting that it didn’t do enough to provide actionable next steps to ...

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