THE DARK NET: AN ENABLER OF ILLEGAL FRAUDULENT ACTIVITY
November 1st, 2016
COMPANIES and the financial professionals that work with them have many risks to worry about, but few can seem as menacing and as alien as the so-called ‘dark web’.
The Internet can be described as an iceberg: the websites and services most people use regularly are the tip, but there is an entire other, much larger world submerged below.
Part is the ‘dark web’. Joss Wright, a research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, at the UK’s University of Oxford, explained that this can only be accessed through anonymous network software and special ...
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