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Combating Crime on the Dark Web

By : Nearchos Nearchou
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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

History of the Dark Web

The internet has changed significantly since the 1990s when it first became widely available. The growth of the so-called Dark Web is one of the most divisive shifts. Though some people may think that the Dark Web is a discovery of the 21st century, its history dates back much further. The idea of an anonymous secure network stretches all the way back to the 1960s. In that decade, the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was created. This experimental network was the beginning of the internet and, after a few years, the Dark Web. ARPANET started as a platform for academic use, but it quickly became a valuable tool for the military of the US (Featherly, 2021).

The term Darknet was introduced in the 1970s to designate networks isolated from ARPANET (that period’s internet). In simple words, a Darknet is a set of interconnected networks wherein all network traffic is hidden. Thus, anyone can browse a Darknet, leaving little to no traces...