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YOUR BUSINESS DATA MAY BE OUT THERE AND YOU DON ’ T EVEN KNOW IT : A SIMPLE GUIDE TO THE DARK WEB WHY THE CONTINUED RISE OF THE DARK WEB IS A THREAT TO CORPORATE DATA AND WHY BUSINESSES NEED TO TAKE ACTION
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The dark web is a nefarious place , where criminals lurk and communicate , buy , sell , plot and plunder . The clue , of course , is in the name . Speaking to NBC in July 2018 , FBI Supervisory Special Agent Mark Knoll referred to it as “ like your new drug dealer on the corner in the virtual world ”.
The UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd went further , saying it ’ s a place where “ anonymity emboldens people to break the law in the most horrifying of ways with platforms that enable dangerous crimes and appalling abuse ”.
Highlighting the broader impact of the dark web is important because much of the publicity surrounding it in recent years has been related to drug trafficking .
The Silk Road marketplace was perhaps one of the best known sites for this , at least until it was closed down in 2013 , after the capture and imprisonment of its founder Ross Ulbricht .
Its relevance to fuelling other crimes cannot be understated , but it is perhaps in cybercrime where the dark web truly thrives . As a recent CNBC article suggested , the building blocks for ID theft are on the dark web . Selling personal information to fraudsters is , anecdotally at least , booming , which is not surprising given the cybercrime statistics .
What is the dark web ?
The dark web is an encrypted part of the internet that uses non-standard communication protocols
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