Kerala police gear up to scan underworld of Internet

News:Kerala police has launched a programme called Cyberdome.

Facts:

About Cyberdome:

• Cyberdome is Kerala police department’s premier facility dedicated to prevent cybercrime and mitigate security threats to the State’s critical information infrastructure.
• The facility has state-of-the-art lab complete with enabling software to intervene and crack down on the rising criminal activities over the Darknet also known as the underworld of the Internet.

Additional information:

Darknet:

• The darknet refers to networks that are not accessible by search engines such as Google, Yahoo or Bing. 
• These are networks that are only available to a select group of people and not to the general Internet public.It is only accessible via authorization, specific software and configurations.
• The two typical types of darknet are friend-to-friend networks (usually used for file sharing with a peer-to-peer connection) and privacy networks such as Tor (The Onion Router).
• It is a major source to buy anything for drug dealers, arms traffickers, child pornography collectors and other criminals involved in financial and physical crimes.