video A grenade to buy? A stolen credit card? Drugs? Or as an assassin under the arm? That everything is just a few clicks away, says Technical Director Rense Buijen of cyberbeveiliger Trend Micro. He adds the action to the word, and takes us on the darkweb during Infosecurity, the trade fair on IT security for today and tomorrow takes place in Brussels Expo.
The darkweb is a part of the internet that is protected from search engines and is inaccessible through standard web browsers. “It is not so very difficult to the darkweb to visit,” explains Buijen. “You can be a special browser for download, which is called the Tor browser. Then you just need to launch the browser and know where to look. It’s pretty easy.” the
The Tor browser allows you, while surfing anonymously, but for a delivery should, of course, you still have a real address. “I’m obviously not a criminal,” laughs Buijen. “So I myself have nothing ordered.”
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“The visit of the darkweb is, in and of itself is not illegal in our country,” explains Andries Bomans, spokesman of the Center for Cybersecurity in Belgium. “The questions, or purchases of, for example, a grenade is, of course. About 99 percent of the products via the darkweb be sold are illegal.” the
“The Center for Cybersecurity performs especially research into new viruses that are created and traded via the darkweb. We also hold discussions about cyber-attacks closely in the eye. So we can make new developments in the cyber world, which is located in the illegal circuit, situate, follow”, sounds.
“Also state Security service and the federal police use the darkweb to criminal activities to detect,” said Bomans. Security may for security reasons not clarify how the operational functioning smoothly.
