Getting a Little Darker

today we discuss on a type of dark net :-  

What is Dark Web and how to access it?

The dark web is the World Wide Web content that exists on darknets, overlay networks which

use public Internet but require specific software, configurations or authorization to access. The dark 

web forms a small part of the deep web, the part of the Web not indexed by search engines.

The Dark Web is a term that refers specifically to a collection of websites that exist on an encrypted network and cannot be found by using traditional search engines or visited by using traditional browsers.

The most famous content that resides on the Dark Web is found in the TOR network. The TOR network is an anonymous network that can only be accessed with a special web browser, called the TOR browser. This is the portion of the Internet most widely known for illicit activities because of the anonymity associated with the TOR network.

Almost all sites on the so-called Dark Web hide their identity using the Tor encryption tool. You may know Tor for its ability to hide your identity and activity. You can use Tor to spoof your location so it appears you're in a different country to where you're really located. When a website is run through Tor it has much the same effect.

Indeed, it multiplies the effect. To visit a site on the Dark Web that is using Tor encryption, the web user needs to be using Tor. Just as the end user's IP address is bounced through several layers of encryption to appear to be at another IP address on the Tor network, so is that of the website. So there are several layers of magnitude more secrecy than the already secret act of using Tor to visit a website on the open internet - for both parties.

Some Cases of using Dark Web...

The Dark Web hit the headlines in August 2015 after it was been reported that 10GB of data stolen from Ashley Madison, a site designed to enable bored spouses to cheat on their partners, was dumped on to the Dark Web. Hackers stole the data and threatened to upload it to the web if the site did not close down, and it has now acted on that threat. Now the spouses of Ashley Madison users have begun to receive blackmail letters demanding they pay $2500 in Bitcoin or have the infidelity exposed.

In March 2015 the UK government launched a dedicated cybercrime unit to tackle the Dark Web, with a particular focus on cracking down on serious crime rings and child pornography. The National Crime Agency (NCA) and UK intelligence outfit GCHQ are together creating the Joint Operations Cell (JOC).

Web based Hidden Services in January 2015

Category	Percentage
Gambling	0.4
Guns	1.4
Chat	2.2
New (Not yet indexed)	2.2
Abuse	2.2
Books	2.5
Directory	2.5
Blog	2.75
Porn	2.75
Hosting	3.5
Hacking	4.25
Search	4.25
Anonymity	4.5
Forum	4.75
Counterfeit	5.2
Whistleblower	5.2
Wiki	5.2
Mail	5.7
Bitcoin	6.2
Fraud	9
Market	9
Drugs	15.4

The Other Side of Internet

In my last blog i talked a little about deep web today we will take a closer look on " Darknet" which is the dark side of Internet.

The size of the Deep Web is difficult to calculate. But top university researchers say the Web you know -- Facebook, Wikipedia, news -- makes up less than 1% of the entire World Wide Web.When you surf the Web, you really are just floating at the surface. For Example- Deep web are those which you can not find on Google.  Dive below and there are tens of trillions of pages -- an unfathomable number -- that most people have never seen which is known as Darknet.

   But first, what exactly is the Darknet?

• Darknet – A Darknet is an overlay network that can only be accessed with specific software, configurations, or authorization, often using non-standard communications protocols and ports.
• Dark web – The Dark web is content that exists on Darknet, overlay networks which use the public Internet but which require specific software, configurations or authorization to access.
• Deep web – The Deep web is parts of the World Wide Web whose contents are not indexed by standard search engines for any reason.
• Clearnet – The Clearnet is a term typically referring to the unencrypted, or non-darknet. This traditional world wide web has relatively low-base anonymity, with most websites routinely identifying users by their IP address.

DarkNet :

A darknet  is an overlay network that can only be accessed with specific software, configurations, or authorization, often using non-standard communications protocols and ports. Two typical darknet types are friend-to-friend networks (usually used for file sharing with a peer-to-peer connection) and privacy networks such as Tor.

Origin- "Darknet" was coined in the 1970s to designate networks which were isolated from ARPANET, which evolved into the Internet, for security purposes. Darknets were able to receive data from ARPANET, but had addresses which did not appear in the network lists and would not answer pings or other inquiries.

Uses :

Darknets in general may be used for various reasons, such as:

• Computer crime (hacking, file corruption etc.)
• Protecting dissidents from political reprisal
• File sharing (warez, personal files, pornography, confidential files, illegal or counterfeit software etc.)
• To better protect the privacy rights of citizens from targeted and mass surveillance
• Sale of restricted goods on darknet markets
• Whistleblowing and news leaks

What is Deep Web?

Deep web:

The deep web,invisible web, or hidden web are parts of the World Wide Web whose contents are not indexed by standard search engines for any reason. The opposite term to the deep web is the surface web. The deep web includes many very common uses such as web mail, online banking but also paid for services with a paywall such as video on demand, and many more. Computer scientist Mike Bergman is credited with coining the term deep web in 2000 as a search indexing term.

In our daily life we only use the surface web.Google, Yahoo and other search engines only show 4% of the data available on the internet. To access the other 96% it requires customized digging through individual sites, restricted access journals, archives and so on. This 96% is known as deep web.It's also important to understand that pretty much every thing we do online is visible,traceable and possibly be monitored. Everything except....for the areas of the deep web that are masked by the "dark web" which means you can access and interact with it anonymously without being tracked

To know more about "Deep Web and Dark Web" read my next blog.....