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WhatsApp, Telegram used to share child porn, suicide videos among teens in Italy

Police said they were tipped off to the images by the mother of a 15-year-old boy who found them on her son’s phone.

11 Jul 2020 9:07 PM

Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (on the right screen) addresses a live video conference on the special Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Plus Three Summit on the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in Hanoi on April 14, 2020 as South Korea's President Moon Jae-in, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and China's Premier Li Keqiang are seen on left television screen. (Photo | AFP)

Zoom security further compromised as 500,000 Zoom accounts sold on dark web, says report

Hackers are selling users’ email addresses, passwords, personal meeting URLs and host keys, including of companies like Citibank

14 Apr 2020 4:30 PM

International post office has become a soft transit point as it is being exploited by international drug syndicates to pump in contraband substances into the national capital and other parts of the country. The cartels are using “Dark Web” to supply drugs to their associates and customers.

Dark Web, bitcoin abet drug peddling in Delhi

Dark Web is a part of the Internet that isn’t indexed by search engines. It is termed as hotbed of criminal activity.

23 Sep 2019 1:47 AM

security researcher Seongsu Park noted that medical records are likely to be used for calling scam, identity and monetary theft, as well as blackmailing and any derived crimes.

Report: Your stolen medical records are as worthy on the dark web as a credit card

Before a check-up or an admission, hospitals generally require a patient’s personal and financial credentials, which can be used to scam.

14 Sep 2019 1:50 AM

A fourth man who allegedly acted as a moderator and promoter for the site, Wall Street Market, was taken into custody in Brazil.

Accused operators of illicit 'darknet' market arrested in Germany, Brazil

“Darknet” and “dark web” refer to networks and sites hidden from most internet visitors and accessible only to users shrouded in anonymity.

04 May 2019 12:06 PM

Data breaches will continue. And as long as we as netizens will continue to use simple and common passwords, the database will keep increasing. (Photo: Pixabay, representative image purpose only)

773 million email ID, passwords exposed. Were you part of it?

2,692,818,238 rows of email IDs and passwords are listed in a single database online.

19 Jan 2019 1:59 PM

Encryption and secrecy ensure that the dark side of the web stays shrouded in mystery but a city-based workshop aims to lift the lid off this elusive space.

Delving into the dark side

The Dark Web makes up a small part of the Internet but is a highly busy space, brimming with illicit activities.

05 Jan 2019 5:30 AM

Data stolen due to people’s lax security may have limited resale value, but can be put to many uses.

Beware: Your digital identity on sale. Price - less than $50

Kaspersky Lab investigated Dark Web markets to find out how much personal data is worth.

13 Dec 2018 11:52 AM

Police to crack down on narcotics trade on Dark Web

The Dark Web is the World Wide Web content that exists on the Internet but requires specific software, configurations or authorisation to access it.

01 Mar 2018 2:05 AM

SIM swapping is an issue that anybody can fall prey to, regardless of a secure hardware or software. (Representative Image)

SIM swapping makes your phone vulnerable

Hackers can gain access to your bank accounts by simply hijacking your SIM card.

27 Nov 2017 11:27 AM

RBC, however, is researching how it can utilize the distribution ledger technology that underpins bitcoin, called blockchain. RBC earlier told Reuters that it was experimenting with blockchain to help move payments between its U.S. and Canadian banks.

RBC's CEO pushes back on suggestion bitcoin is a fraud

While banks have largely steered clear of bitcoin since it emerged, the virtual currency is supported by a range of people.

29 Sep 2017 8:27 AM

On July 17, for reasons that are still not clear, Herba drove the woman back to Milan and released her close to the British Consulate, where he was arrested. (Photo: AP)

Italy: Man arrested for trying to sell UK model on dark web after abducting her

Italian police said they are looking for at least 1 other man following the arrest of British-resident Pole Lukasz Pawel Herba.

07 Aug 2017 1:21 PM

Though the change is designed to improve capacity on the increasingly clogged network, some miners had objected because it could reduce transaction fees they collect.

Threat of a Bitcoin split avoided, for now

A majority of "miners" - the core bitcoin users who verify bitcoin transactions around the world - has signaled support.

01 Aug 2017 4:29 PM

Bitcoin operates by giving each user a unique public key, which is a string of numbers. Users can transmit money in the form of digital bitcoins from one public key to another.

New system makes it harder to track Bitcoin transactions

Bitcoin was initially conceived as a way for people to exchange money anonymously.

09 Feb 2017 6:07 PM

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