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The article offers information on stealing and selling of personal information by the computer hackers. Topics discussed include financial or health records being stolen and could take several months to recover; use of special software that hides the identity of visitors which is known as dark web, a marketplace for anything and everything illegal; and hike in the number of ransomware attack where the victims have to pay to unlock their items.

The article informs that Israeli security research company Cytegic has claimed a link between cyberattacks and terrorism. Topics discussed include aiming cyberattacks on government and media activities on the Internet, and taking the form of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, and phishing attacks; views of Shay Zandani, chief executive officer (CEO) at Cytegic, on gather data from public sources and the Dark Web; and working on to revealing geopolitical data though pattern of attacks.

The article focuses on the statement of Net Applications regarding the implication of prerendering technology on the inflated market share of Google's Chrome browser. It says that prerendering loads an obscure and hidden web page that slows the loading capability of the browser. It adds that Chrome has released prerendering functionality Chrome 17 which accelerates search queries for the browser.