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After numerous presentations and trainings on darknet investigations, here's my advice and approach. This is just how I've evolved to do them over the past decade. Your process and results may vary. I'm interested in…

Researchers at Delft University of Technology have secured another €3.3 million in funding for academic research into the ‘Internet-of-Trust’. The money will in large part be used to continue development on the Tribler BitTorrent client.

Rebecca Herold, The Privacy Professor, hosts a great podcast series about all things privacy and technology over on VoiceAmerica. I was a guest on the episode entitled, "Diving into the Dark Net". You can listen to the…

My team at DarkOwl did a ton of work researching, discussing, and debating this piece, https://www.darkowl.com/blog/nation-state-actors-in-the-dark-web. My role was editor, debater, and shepard to find a path forward. There are two people who did the…

Looking forward to my second OSMOSIS Institute conference. I'll be demystifying the darknets. Here's my session blurb. See you there! Making the theoretical, practical. Darknet technologies are often steeped in deep technical jargon and complex…

Great, yet depressing, summary of the current situation from the New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28/us/child-sex-abuse.html. More can always be done to combat the problem. Most of my time is spent helping companies investigate thefts of property…

Looking forward to seeing everyone and speaking at the HTCIA International Conference in Chicago in a day. What is the HTCIA conference? The High Technology Crime Investigation Association’s (HTCIA), International Conference & Training Expo is…

Thanks for Carahsoft for hosting me on a webinar about the basics of darknet investigations. The archive is available at https://www.carahsoft.com/learn/event/17574. The content is focused on US Government challenges and ability to investigate the darknet.

8chan Activates “Emergency Bunker” on Dark Web — DarkOwl - Darknet Big Data — Read on www.darkowl.com/blog/8chan-finds-new-home-on-dark-web

The darknet's smaller than we thought: The life cycle of Tor Hidden Services Abstract The Tor Darknet is a pseudo-anonymous place to host content online frequently used by criminals to sell narcotics and to distribute…