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Combating Crime on the Dark Web

By : Nearchos Nearchou
Book Image

Combating Crime on the Dark Web

By: Nearchos Nearchou

Overview of this book

In today’s world, the crime-prevention landscape is impossible to navigate. The dark web means new frontiers of combat against bad actors that pop up daily. Everyone from narcotics dealers to human traffickers are exploiting the dark web to evade authorities. If you want to find your feet in this tricky terrain and fight crime on the dark web, take this comprehensive, easy-to-follow cyber security guide with you. Combating Crime on the Dark Web contains everything you need to be aware of when tackling the world of the dark web. Step by step, you’ll gain acumen in the tactics that cybercriminals are adopting and be equipped with the arsenal of strategies that are available to you as a cybersecurity specialist. This cyber security book ensures that you are well acquainted with all the latest techniques to combat dark web criminality. After a primer on cybercrime and the history of the dark web, you’ll dive right into the main domains of the dark web ecosystem, reaching a working understanding of how drug markets, child pornography, and human trafficking operate. Once well-versed with the functioning of criminal groups, you’ll be briefed on the most effective tools and methods being employed by law enforcement, tech companies, and others to combat such crimes, developing both a toolkit and a mindset that can help you stay safe from such criminal activities and can be applied in any sector or domain. By the end of this book, you’ll be well prepared to begin your pushback against the criminal elements of the dark web.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Part 1:Introduction to Cybercrime and Dark Web’s History
4
Part 2:The Dark Web’s Ecosystem and Major Crimes
9
Part 3:Efforts to Combat Crimes on the Dark Web

Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

A

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 17

Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) 13

artificial intelligence (AI) 61, 90, 96

asymmetric encryption 36

B

banks

Dark Web human trafficking 64

Bitcoin (BTC) 22

Black Death Group (BDG) 61

Blockchain

working 23

C

central computer database system 101

central intelligence hub system design

considerations 101, 102

centralized system design 99

chief executive officer (CEO) 103

child abuse and exploitation

preventing, ways 52

severity levels 46

child abuse, reducing on Dark Web 48

collaborative approach 51, 52

MFScope 50, 51

Project Arachnid 48

Project Safe Childhood 49

Stop Child Abuse - Trace an Object campaign 49, 50

child pornography 45

child sexual abuse 45

Child...