Security Issues in the Deep and Dark Web: What to know?

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source of Publication

Proceedings of the 2023 12th International Conference on Software and Information Engineering

Publication Date

1-24-2024

Abstract

Anything beyond Surface Web is defined as the Deep Web. In the literature, several researchers use the terms Deep Web and Dark Web interchangeably, but this is a misperception. The latter is a subpart of the deep web, and needs special software to access - the most popular of which is the Tor browser. None of these layers were developed for malicious objectives, however, in the same way that any tool can be utilized for completely different purposes than what it was initially intended for, their functionalities have been exploited and used illicitly. This paper aims to shed light on both oftenmisunderstood parts of the web, particularly on the security issues that surrounds them. The deep web and the dark web are defined herein, their uses and benefits outlined, and some security issues in these unindexed spaces are presented.

ISBN

9798400708107

Publisher

ACM

First Page

93

Last Page

96

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

Dark Web, Deep Web, Security issues, Tor browser, Unindexed spaces

Indexed in Scopus

no

Open Access

yes

Open Access Type

Bronze: This publication is openly available on the publisher’s website but without an open license

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