Google is shutting down its dark web monitoring this week. Here’s why it never helped much – and what actually protects your accounts and identity instead.

The dark web often feels like a mystery, hidden beneath the surface of the internet that most people use every day. But to understand how scams and cybercrimes actually work, you need to know what ...

A massive data breach has exposed the personal information of 17.5 million Instagram users. Learn the three steps you must ...

Another spam tsunami hit my inbox, so I went sleuthing. Here's how I traced the breach—and you can too. I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, password managers, private messaging apps, ...

Google is ending its dark web report, with scans stopping Jan. 15, 2026. Google says it is shifting to tools with clearer, actionable guidance. Other dark web monitoring tools and scanners are still ...

Slate has been released on bail under nine conditions and is due to enter his pleas next month.

Gathering threat intelligence, finding the perpetrators of cyber attacks and bringing down whole ransomware gangs are some of the ways the dark web is used by defenders. The term “dark web” may paint ...

Enterprise AI gets more targeted, Nvidia announces new AI platform at CES, CrowdStrike starts 2026 with two acquisitions.

Question: What's the dark web, and should I be worried about it? Answer: The term "dark web" can pop up in news stories, especially when there's a big data breach. As ominous as it sounds, it’s ...