THE DARK SIDE OF THE CYBER WORLD: DEEPWEB AND DARKNET

Abstract

In today's world, where daily life and business processes are digitized, the concept of cyber is fully embedded in our lives. Although the cyber world has emerged with the aim of communication and socialization, it now includes the digital transformation of many activities from trade to production, from health to education. For these environments, where even the payment method has changed and digital money has begun to be used, to operate in a healthy way, it is necessary to have rules, limits, and a good management approach. Because it is known that threats and risks increase in these environments, and even if precautions are not taken, great damages occur. In the cyber world, there are areas where illegal work is done as well as legal work. In this study, information about DeepWeb and DarkNet environments, which is called the dark side of the cyber world, is given. It is explained how these environments are accessed, what these environments contain, what their dimensions are and what kind of threats they contain. In addition, information on how to deal with this dark side of the cyber world was shared for internet users.