In one of the first talks at this year’s Black Hat USA, Billy Hoffman and Matt Wood, both security researchers at HP, plan to demonstrate a darknet designed to run entirely within a browser. Darknets, ...

The Brazilian police investigation that cracked a high-tech child porn ring earlier this month has shone a spotlight on the darker recesses of the web, an area which still poses massive technology ...

The internet has come under a sustained and significant threat from network malware, especially since the emergence of the global Windows network worm in 2001 with Code Red and Nimda. Prior to this, ...

The latest proposals to lock down the UK internet in the name of preventing child pornography are at best a misunderstanding of how the dark side of the internet works, and at worst a basis for a ...

It's a lesson that goes back as far as the early days of the Roman Empire: stamp out the leadership of a rebel movement and new leadership forms. The next thing you know, you've got a rebellion in ...

Law enforcement agencies across the world are lauding their recent raids on the fortress-like Tor network as a breakthrough in tackling so-called ‘darknets.’ With the hidden web still cloaked in ...

When is an illegal market pretty much like a real market? When it’s a cyber black market. That’s the conclusion that RAND Corporation, a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision ...

The new version of P2P client LimeWire—now at version 5.1.1—has been in the news lately for a feature that makes it simple for even the newbiest newb to create a “darknet.” Nothing here is technically ...

The internet is much more than just the publicly available, Google-able web services most online users frequent – and that’s good for free expression. Companies frequently create private networks to ...

Despite all the openness of the Internet, there are still places you cannot saunter into on the Web. You must be invited. These are "darknets": exclusive peer-to-peer networks in which membership is ...