The dark web—the portion of the deep web only accessible through specific software—exists to serve the needs of hackers-for-hire, hitmen, internet drug kingpins, child pornographers, and their ...

Earlier this year, Ross William Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his involvement with the dark net drug market Silk Road. Ulbricht was slammed with all ...

The Internet is a weird place. I think in 2016 that’s something we can all admit. Though the World Wide Web is a neutral tool, it’s always interesting to see how the same system that allows your ...

Definition: The deep Web, also called the invisible Web, refers to the mass of information that can be accessed via the World Wide Web but can’t be indexed by traditional search engines — often ...

Be careful when you use specialized search engines to explore the Deep Web: its research value comes at the price of its many pitfalls. The Deep Web's bevy of scholarly material is interspersed with ...

When most of us think of the Internet, we're thinking of the sites and services we use on a daily basis, which are accessible by regular browsers and searchable with Google. But beneath this everyday ...

One day last summer, Google's search engine trundled quietly past a milestone. It added the one trillionth address to the list of Web pages it knows about. But as impossibly big as that number may ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered ...

Eighty percent of web traffic on the "deep web" relates to child pornography, according to a study conducted by the University of Portsmouth, UK. It's no surprise that consumers/providers of illegal ...

Question: What exactly is the "deep Web" and how do you get to it? Answer: Despite many representations of a nefarious underground operating out of sight, the so-called "deep Web" is actually mostly ...