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In the past year, U.S. businesses and consumers have experienced more than $18 million in losses stemming from a single strain of ransomware called CryptoWall, according to the Internet Crime Complaint Center.
It may be known to hackers and coders worldwide but for most internet users, the so-called 'Deep Web' remains shrouded in mystery, a supposed morass of drugs, deviancy and stolen credit card details.
The Sept. 11 attacks spurred changes to airport security to prevent future hijackings. But should airline passengers also worry about virtual hijacking?
'Census report' of the unindexed parts of the Internet unearths everything from Bitcoin-laundering services to assassins for hire.
The dark web operates behind an understanding of anonymity. Users aren’t supposed to be able to access dark web websites unless their traffic is anonymized using services like Tor. The IP addresses of dark web services are also hidden so that their hosts are not able to tracked — or at least that’s how it’s supposed to work.

For the U.S., the extradition of Ercan Findikoglu shows the value of patience when it comes to pursuing suspected hacker kingpins.

The deep Web is the vast section of the Internet that isn’t accessible via search engines like Google. To get to the deep Web, you have to use specific software like TOR—The Onion Router—which works to anonymize traffic between two points on the “unindexed Internet.”
The deep and dark web may have a reputation for the illegal and illicit, but it can be a lifeline to many in oppressive and dangerous regimes.
Working out who is behind a cyber attack is one of the hardest parts of dealing with any security incident - and it's getting a lot harder.

It took less than a week for a functional exploit for a recently patched Adobe Flash Player vulnerability to be added to the Magnitude exploit kit, Trend Micro researchers warn...