Blog Posts Tagged with "DarkNet"

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Traveling the Silk Road: A Study of the Online Black Market

August 10, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini

I've found some interesting research conducted by Carnegie Mellon computer security professor Nicolas Christin on the earnings of one of the most famous black markets in the Deep Web, the Silk Road. It seems to be able to realize $22 Million in annual revenues related to the drug market...

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Moralizing, Anonymous, and Digital Vigilantism

October 30, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban

It would seem that Anonymous, Antisec, and LulzSec have already decided to take up the mantle of vigilante’s already. However, the targets have been, for the most part, varied parties that could be seen as hapless victims or as malefactors, it all depends on the point of view really...

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Operation DarkNet: A Good Start, But There is More to Do

October 20, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban

Due to the nature of the site and its being in the hidden wiki (DarkNet) it is tough to know exactly where the systems sit that house/host the content, but, it seems that through certain techniques using TTL, they pretty much have a good idea of where the server may sit in the continental US.

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