Deep Web Search Engines to Explore Internet

Deep Web Search Engines to Explore Internet

Do you know: There is a vast section of the Internet which is hidden and not accessible through regular search engines and web browsers.

This part of the Internet is known as the Deep Web, and it is about 500 times the size of the Web that we know.

What is DEEP WEB?

Deep Web is referred to the data which are not indexed by any standard search engine such as Google or Yahoo.

The 'Deep Web' refers to all web pages that search engines cannot find, such as user databases, registration-required web forums, webmail pages, and pages behind paywalls.

Then, there's the Dark Web or Dark Net – a specific part of that hidden Deep Web.

Deep Web and Dark Web are the intriguing topics for the Netizens all around. But when you hear the term 'Deep Web' or 'Dark Web,' you usually categorize them into one.

If yes, then you are wrong.

What is DARK WEB?

Dark Web is where you can operate without been tracked, maintaining total anonymity.

The Dark Web is much smaller than the Deep Web and is made up of all different kinds of websites that sell drugs, weapons and even hire assassins.

These are hidden networks avoiding their presence on the Surface Web, and its URLs are tailed up with .onion.

These [websitename].onion domains are not indexed by regular search engines, so you can only access Dark Web with special software -- called 'The Onion Browser,' referred to as TOR.

TOR is free, and anyone can download it.

Many of us heard about the Dark Web when the largest online underground marketplace Silk Road was taken down following an investigation by United States federal authorities.

But, what if, you can still be able to dig the Darknet contents with your regular browsers, without the need of TOR?

Here's How to Surf & Search the Deep Web without TOR

Solution: Deep Web Search Engines

Search engines like Google are incredibly powerful, but they can't crawl and index the vast amount of data that is not hyperlinked or accessed via public DNS services.

However, there are Deep Web Search Engines that crawl over the TOR network and bring the same result to your regular browser.

Some of such Dark Web Search Engines are:

• Onion.City
• Onion.to
• Not Evil
• Memex Deep Web Search Engine

Here are some Deep Web Search Engines:

• The WWW Virtual Library
• Collection of Deep Web Research Tools
• Surfwax
• IceRocket
• Stumpedia
• Freebase
• TechDeepWeb

These Deep Web search engines talks to the onion service via Tor and relays, resolve the .onion links and then deliver the final output to your regular browser on the ordinary World Wide Web.

However, there is one consequence of browsing Deep or Dark Web on a regular browser. Working this way will make these .onion search results visible to you, me, and also, for Google.

Moreover, tracker-less search engines are also popular in the TOR culture – like Disconnect, DDG, IXQuick – which ensures your privacy searches.

Importance of TOR

It is worth noting that mere access via TOR is not considered as an illegal practice but can arouse suspicion with the law.

TOR has long been used by Journalists, Researchers, or Thrill seekers in heavily censored countries in order to hide their web browsing habits and physical location, crawl the Deep Web and exchange information anonymously.

However, one of the main reasons behind the rise of TOR is NSA's Surveillance Programs.

After the Assange-Snowden revelations in the past years, public fears about their privacy getting compromised over the Internet.

The reliability of the Internet had been lost that demanded the Ciphers come into action to thwart the Federal Agency's efforts. So comes the need of TOR.

With the help of TOR, the web users could roam around the Internet beyond any fear, keeping themselves and their real identities hidden from federal and intelligent agencies.

This is why TOR is being one of the favorite targets of federal agencies.

Since Tor has long been a target of the government intelligence agencies, most online users do not feel safe to use Tor anymore.

To known how easy it is for government agencies to unmask Tor users, you can read these articles:

• How Spies Could Unmask Tor Users without Cracking Encryption
• How Hacking Team and FBI planned to Unmask A Tor User

Who lurks in the 'Dark Web'?

According to the recent survey conducted by researchers Daniel Moore and Thomas Rid (in their book Cryptopolitik and the Darknet), it is found that 57% of the Dark Web is occupied by unauthorized contents like Pornography, Illicit Finances, Drug Hub, Weapon Trafficking, counterfeit currency flow and many more.

The netizens had given the shade of illegalities to Dark Web. This is why today Dark Web is being defined as something that is illegal instead of a 'Pool of Information.'

However, there are countless reasons to use Dark Web. But, ultimately, it depends on the surfer what to surf?

Sidelining Darkweb for criminal offenses often gray out the legitimate purposes inside Dark Web.

In the end, I just want to say:

Knowledge is Free! Happy Surfing!

A Single-Character Message Can Crash Any Gadget Apple

A Single-Character Message Can Crash Any Gadget Apple

Only a single character can crash your iPhone and block access to the Messaging app in iOS as well as popular apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Outlook for iOS, and Gmail.

First spotted by Italian Blog Mobile World, a potentially new severe bug affects not only iPhones but also a wide range of Apple devices, including iPads, Macs and even Watch OS devices running the latest versions of their operating software.

Like previous 'text bomb' bug, the new flaw can easily be exploited by anyone, requiring users to send only a single character from Telugu—a native Indian language spoken by about 70 million people in the country.

Once the recipient receives a simple message containing the symbol or typed that symbol into the text editor, the character immediately instigates crashes on iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple Watches and Apple TVs running Apple's iOS Springboard.

Apps that receive the text bomb tries to load the character, but fails and refuses to function properly until the character is removed—which usually can be done by deleting the entire conversation.

The easiest way to delete the offending message is by asking someone else to send a message to the app that is crashing due to the text bomb. This would allow you to jump directly into the notification and delete the entire thread containing the character.

The character can disable third-party apps like iMessage, Slack, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Gmail, and Outlook for iOS, as well as Safari and Messages for the macOS versions.

Telegram and Skype users appear to be unaffected by the text bomb bug.

Apple was made aware of the text bomb bug at least three days ago, and the company plans to address the issue in an iOS update soon before the release of iOS 11.3 this spring.


The public beta version of iOS 11.3 is unaffected.

Since so many apps are affected by the new text bomb, bad people can use the bug to target Apple users via email or messaging or to create mass chaos by spamming the character across an open social platform.

Android P Block Background Apps from Accessing Your Camera, Microphone

Android P Block Background Apps from Accessing Your Camera, Microphone

Yes, your smartphone is spying on you. But, the real question is, should you care?

We have published thousands of articles on The Hacker News, warning how any mobile app can turn your smartphone into a bugging device—'Facebook is listening to your conversations', 'Stealing Passwords Using SmartPhone Sensors', 'Your Headphones Can Spy On You' and 'Android Malware Found Spying Military Personnel' to name a few.

All these stories have different objectives and targets but have one thing in common, i.e., apps running in the background covertly abuse ‘permissions’ without notifying users.

Installing a single malicious app unknowingly could allow remote attackers to covertly record audio, video, and taking photos in the background.

But, not anymore!

In a boost to user privacy, the next version of Google's mobile operating system, Android P, will apparently block apps idling in the background from accessing your smartphone's camera and microphone.

According to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) commit, Google is working on two built-in features in Android P to protect its users from malicious apps spying on them using smartphones’ camera or microphone.

First spotted by XDA developers, the source code commit for both the camera and microphone changes notes that apps that are "idle" (aka running in the background) "for more than a certain amount of time" without specifying themselves will not be able to use the microphone or camera.

To do so, the Android P mobile operating system would target something known as an app's User ID (UID)—a unique ID assigned to an app when a user downloads it on his/her Android device that cannot be altered and are permanent until the app is uninstalled.

Android P would keep an eye on the app’s UID and block it from accessing the camera and microphone in any way whenever that UID is idle. Repeated attempts of requesting access to the camera would generate errors.

However, microphone-using apps will not be cut off from the microphone, but will "report empty data (all zeros in the byte array), and once the process goes in an active state, we report the real mic data."

It should also be noted that users talking on the smartphone while using other apps will not have to worry about these new features because the dialer application went into the background while active.

Imposing such limitations on apps would surely alleviate spying fears for Android users as of today when advertisers misuse such features to listen in on app users and Android malware capable of capturing audio, video, and images in the background are out there, for example, Skygofree and Lipizzan.

Android P is still in development and is not yet named. The company seems to release the next major version of Android in this year's Google I/O developer conference that will take place from May 8 to May 10 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California.