{"id":30215,"date":"2016-09-15T20:01:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T03:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/dark-web-criminals-supplying-forged-diplomas-certifications"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:15:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:15:27","slug":"dark-web-criminals-supplying-forged-diplomas-certifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/dark-web-criminals-supplying-forged-diplomas-certifications","title":{"rendered":"Dark Web Criminals Supplying Forged Diplomas &amp; Certifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dark-web-criminals-supplying-forged-diplomas-certifications.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, we all have heard all of the horrorr stories of a botch surgery or treatment performed by a MD who was a fraud. Well, our friends on the Dark Web are at work again in supplying anyone willing to pay fake diplomas &amp; certifications. The challenge is how do companies and agencies validate? Something to ponder as we all know hackers can also forge educational records as well.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Criminals on the Dark Web (a lawless, unregulated part of the Internet) are supplying fake diplomas and employment certifications to anyone with a few hundred bucks.<\/p>\n<p>According to Israeli threat intelligence firm <a href=\"http:\/\/cybersixgill.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sixgill<\/a>, people are even hiring hackers to penetrate university computer systems to alter grades.<\/p>\n<p>The company has pinpointed multiple vendors selling degrees and accreditation that can easily be mistaken for being legitimate, so the market for fraudulent documents is booming.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nearshoreamericas.com\/dark-web-criminals-supplying-forged-diplomas-certifications\/\">http:\/\/www.nearshoreamericas.com\/dark-web-criminals-supplyin...fications\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And, we all have heard all of the horrorr stories of a botch surgery or treatment performed by a MD who was a fraud. Well, our friends on the Dark Web are at work again in supplying anyone willing to pay fake diplomas &amp; certifications. The challenge is how do companies and agencies validate? Something [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,32,1878,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-education","category-employment","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66229,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30215\/revisions\/66229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}