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DarkCyber for October 16, 2018, Now Available

This week’s story line up includes… an apparent public relations and marketing spat between two Dark Web indexing and analysis services… The PureTech systems fully autonomous drone platform… and another Dark Web murder-for-hire failure.


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Stephen E Arnold said, “PureTech has rolled out smart software which reduces response time and provides a real time flow of images, video, and other information. The PureTech analytics platforms makes sense of these data in real time which further increases the effectiveness of security, law enforcement, and intelligence professionals.”

DarkCyber for October 16, 2018, is now available at www.arnoldit.com/wordpress and on Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/295026034

Stephen E Arnold’s DarkCyber is a weekly video news and analysis program about the Dark Web and lesser known Internet services. This week’s program covers three stories related to the Dark Web and specialized Internet services.
 
The first story explores what appears to be a public relations spat between two Dark Web indexing vendors. Terbium Labs offers it Matchlight service to government and commercial companies. Digital Shadows sells its SearchLight service to the same markets. Terbium Labs issued a new report. The document asserts that data collection about the Dark Web and related services has to be more stringent and consistent. Digital Shadows response was a report that for $150 Dark Web bad actors would hack the email account of any employee. The data used to back the claim were general, and they lacked the specificity that Terbium Labs desires. DarkCyber’s view is that Terbium Lab is advocating a “high road”; that is, more diligent data collection and more comprehensive indexing. Digital Shadows, on the other hand, seems to be embrace the IBM approach to marketing by emphasizing uncertainty and doubt.
 
The second story reports that PureTech Systems has announced it fully autonomous drone platform. When a sensor is activate, the PureTech drone can launch itself, navigate to the specific location identified by the sensor, and began collecting information in real time. The data are then fed in real time into the PureTech analytics subsystem. Tasks which once required specialists and intelligence analysts can now be shifted to the PureTech platform. Stephen E Arnold, author of “CyberOSINT: Next Generation Information Access,” said: “PureTech has rolled out smart software which reduces response time and provides a real time flow of images, video, and other information. The PureTech analytics platforms makes sense of these data in real time which further increases the effectiveness of security, law enforcement, and intelligence professionals.”
 
The final story for the October 16, 2018, is the failure of a California film professional to arrange for a Dark Web murder. After police received a tip, the person of interest was arrested. His missteps included using his California driver’s license to purchase Bitcoin to pay the Dark Web hit man. The interest in murder for hire seems to be high; however, most of those visiting these sites do not realize that they are scams. The California man paid $5 down on the hit, but his payoff was a stay in jail, not the termination of his step mother.

DarkCyber appears each Tuesday on the blog Beyond Search and on Vimeo. A four part series about Amazon’s policeware capabilities begins on October 30, 2018. Watch for these programs at www.arnoldit.com/wordpress.

About Stephen E Arnold

Stephen E Arnold is the author of “Dark Web Notebook” and “CyberOSINT: Next Generation Information Access.” This book describes some of the technologies used by GSR and Cambridge Analytica to acquire and analyze Facebook user data. He has been named as a technology adviser to the UK based Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Human Trafficking and Child Sex Abuse.” Mr. Arnold also lectures to law enforcement and intelligence professionals who will be attending the September 2018 Telestrategies ISS conference in Washington, DC, in September 2018. In recent months, he has shared his research with law enforcement and intelligence professionals in the US and Europe. His most recent lectures focus on deanonymizing chat and digital currency transactions. One hour and full day programs are available via webinars and on-site presentations. He publishes the free Web log “Beyond Search,” which is available at www.arnoldit.com/wordpress.


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