The Brighter Side of Dark Web is Even Scarier

THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF DARK WEB IS EVEN SCARIER

What happens to the data of an organization when their system is hacked, obviously those stolen data end up in the data market. The hackers sell it to what is known as the dark web. Dark web is a website that is not indexed by the Search Engines and can only be accessed if you know the URL.

With its easy access to sensitive information and illegal activities, the notion of the dark web can be chilling. Yet there is a place that is potentially more dangerous and much more significant in scale.Â

The dark web ensures that you get easy information related to all illegal activities and the facts can be surprising. This place is dangerous, but on the same scale, it has some significance.Â

What astonishes the cyber world is that there is a place called dark web on the Internet, and you are allowed to upload and download easy and sensitive data. What is more shocking is the ease of doing this significant damage.

How it works, a research student tried to go with the process of the dark web as he shared some sensitive information that consisted of data mostly about himself. A fake customer number, personal information, address and contact details, emails, social security number etc.Â

The service of slide-sharing was used to upload the presentation. Anyway, this service also makes it handy to share this information with the public. What is surprising is that Google helps you find this information. Search for QBR or Prezi yo will get all public QBR uploaded by Prezi.Â

More than 10% of cloud services allow you to easily upload and share data by signing up without a credit card. An enterprise has more than 1,000 cloud services in use and more than 95% of those are business-led, with the remaining 5% being IT-led.Â