How the FBI tracked down Dread Pirate Roberts
The Silk Road founder’s own carelessness led the FBI to his San Francisco home.
On Oct 2, 2013 by Patrick Howell O’Neill
Silk Road closed: Founder of Dark Web’s drug marketplace arrested
According to the FBI, Silk Road proprietor Dread Pirate Roberts has been identified and arrested.
Silk Road drug dealers donate proceeds to charity
Vendors from the Deep Web’s illegal drug markets are raising funds this week for a variety of notable causes.
On Oct 1, 2013 by Patrick Howell O’Neill
I cheated YouTube for 5 months and finally got caught
The final tally? 505,791 views, 17 comments, 18 likes, and 22 dislikes, nearly all of them phony.
On Sep 30, 2013 by Chase Hoffberger
Police set to charge Deep Web gun runner with suite of new charges
Adam Bunger is alleged to have run two accounts on the Deep Web, one peddling drugs, the other selling guns.
On Sep 23, 2013 by Patrick Howell O’Neill
Online black market Atlantis abruptly shuts down
Atlantis aimed to be a slicker, more user-friendly competitor to industry leader Silk Road.
On Sep 20, 2013 by Patrick Howell O’Neill
Privacy group demands answers about government’s influence on Tor
EPIC wants to know whether the U.S government has compromized the world’s most famous anonymization software.
On Sep 19, 2013 by Aaron Sankin
Why Twitter can’t win its war on spam
Why invest in Twitter’s initial public offering when you could pick up a couple thousand new followers instead?
On Sep 19, 2013 by Tim Sampson
Cops may have just busted a major illegal gun dealer from the Deep Web
Adam Bunger is accused of selling guns illegally abroad, but cops may be missing the real story.
On Sep 18, 2013 by Patrick Howell O’Neill
FBI claims responsibility for malware attack that crippled the Dark Web
The FBI admitted in court it was behind the malware attack that led to the compromise of Freedom Hosting, the anonymous Tor hosting service.
On Sep 13, 2013 by Patrick Howell O’Neill
Why Silk Road can’t prevent teens from scoring drugs
Silk Road purchases are designed to be secret, but teens have a terrible track record of bragging about their drug deals online.
NSA spent $25 million on ‘software vulnerabilities’ in 2013
The vulnerabilities are reportedly used to hack foreign governments.
On Aug 31, 2013 by Jay Hathaway
How the Internet powered a DIY drug revolution
From ecstasy busts to underground narcotics cookbooks, this is the untold history of the Internet’s long and intimate relationship with drugs.
On Aug 28, 2013 by Patrick Howell O’Neill
From the street to Silk Road, prescription downers cost the same
A new study found the street value and strength of prescription opioids to be comparable to what’s found in online black markets.
On Aug 23, 2013 by Patrick Howell O’Neill
U.S. requests extradition for man charged as world’s biggest child porn enabler
Eric Eoin Marques, accused of running Dark Web hosting service Freedom Hosting, has a bail hearing scheduled for Sept. 11.
On Aug 15, 2013 by Patrick Howell O’Neill
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