Hello and welcome to our first section in
the course of dark web
and cybersecurity. So our first section is Introduction
to the dark web.
And to start we need to First
understand. What is dark web.
So in the first video we will talk about what is
dark web everything. You need
to know about it.
And to learn it fast. So basically
dark web is the hidden
Collective of internet sites only
accessible by a specialized web browser and
it's used for keeping internet activity
and animus and private which can be helpful in
both legal and illegal applications while
some use it. They government censorship.
It has also been known to be utilize for
highly illegal.
activity
So basically dark web is a secret of network of
websites. That only can be accessed with specialized web browser.
Mainly we use store
door browser. We will talk about it later
in the section.
And basically it used to maintain the
privacy and anonymity of an online activity.
for both legitimate and ethical use
and the non-visible web is
surrounded by several terminology. But if you're going
to discover them, it's important to understand how they vary.
Which is the surface web deep web and
at the end the dark web, which can if we
combine them it's like an iceberg which we
will talk about about them now.
And the difference between each one of them. So basically the
surface swab the surface swab. It's everything related
to what we use in these days like Wikipedia Google
being Amazon Twitter.
Wired anything Instagram that's like
the Everyday Use you do.
On the other hand Deep Web. It's like media record
subscription information government resources digital
documents Financial records on
scientific reports.
Needs a special axis like password access.
in order to get
this kind of information audit also, it
can be indexed from Google or any
kind of search engine to find information.
Mainly you can do it also with Google
Dorking which is another topic.
To be covered in other AC Council course, but it's
also a way to do it.
at the end of the iceberg we have dark web which
basically
It's sites that ends with
DOT onion instead of com.orgot.
IO or anything
It just ends with DOT onion. So basically
what you can find in dark web, it's illegal stuff or
it can be also for legal use.
So there's like the drug trafficking political
protest private Communications. There's
a lot of stuff that happens on the
dark web and mainly it's also used for the marketplace where
you can buy lots of stuff like credit cards.
cheap products and all of them what
I mentioned it's illegal and
what you will see in the course is for only for educational
purposes. You can do anything from
these and I don't recommend that
so the use of dark web in this
course, it will be only ethical use but the illegal
stuff that I will show you it's only
It would be for educational purposes so
that you don't do it and you will see how dangerous
it is.
Next to talk more about the difference
between dark and deep web as we said the distinction
between the Deep Web and the dark web. Basically the
Deep Web requires a proper invitation or
indexing in the search engine and the
dark web. Basically it will end.
The sites will end not onion instead of
the usual.com or not IO or
anything else.
Moving on to the next slide. We have benefits of
dark web. So why the use of
dark web can be
Good for us.
So in the ethical use you can
do stuff that will help you and will help your organization like
dark web monitoring. So you will identify
and reduce the impact of data breaches because
you can found data related to your organization if
it's leaked or not, and it will help you.
and your organization to respond faster and
to act fast when you
have data breach confirmed.
Also, it will help organization to safeguard their data
and do some vulnerability intelligence. Like what's
the use like the organization the
use of programs they
have so let's say we are using office latest version,
but on dark web we found
that there's a new zero day attack for it. So you can
act fast when you have this kind of stuff and you
can do patching you can do.
can change
Things in the environment of the organization and lots
of good stuff. Also we can monitor the
domains of someone is using the
Company's domain and all of this. It's also
combined with the topic of threat intelligence. So
and that's the aim of this course where
we will combine the two ideas of dark web
and threat intelligence. What will it will
be covered in the next sections?
Moving on to the accessing dark
web ultimately to access dark web
is basically the most famous way to do it is
stored as the most secure one the best one.
And it's really highly secure.
So basically what the story is the onion router
it's used for routing all your
traffic through different nodes and everything would be
encrypted.
So tracing it it would be so hard.
but the question is
the highest question ever asked here. Do we need
VPN? So the answer is no basically why because
the VPN is not needed when
you have to work or basically it will when
you connect on tour basically you will have all
your data encrypted and nothing will be playing text
or something.
So if the use of VPN only in
this scenario is an as for censorship, it's
not for security.
censorship
to bypass
the government rules that they apply
for a country, so
Countries that they don't allow the use
of dark web. So you use this VPN to bypass
the censorship.
but also
Thor have the few feature of
the censorship so that you don't need to
download any VPN or anything but it
depends on the user and how he or
she comfortable in that.
So yeah, and the link for the
tour is store project.org.
And in the next video we will talk about how to install it
and how we can access dark web
for the first time. So I will see you in the
next video.