DarkCyber for December 11, 2018, Now Available

DarkCyber for December 11, 2018, is now available at www.arnoldit.com/wordpress and on Vimeo at https://www.vimeo.com/305314582 .

The program is a production of Stephen E Arnold. It is the only weekly video news shows focusing on the Dark Web and lesser known Internet services.

First, an information packed study about Dark Web weapons sales reveals that Glocks are the most popular illegal hand gun. How much is an illegal weapon? Prices range from $200 to more than $10,000. But fully automatic weapons are the most expensive. Cyber weapons cost a fraction of the price of a physical weapon. The information has been assembled by the RAND Corporation, and the report makes clear that despite the shut down of many Dark Web eCommerce sites, unregistered weapons are available via Tor and the Dark Web. The video provides the information needed to obtain a copy of this useful collection of hard to find data.

Second, DarkCyber reports that ThomsonReuters along with a handful of less well known companies are selling personal data to the US government. ThomsonReuters, according to a source available to DarkCyber, sells information related to driving; for example, data about license tags and information derived from surveillance cameras. With these types of data, government investigators are able to examine travel routes and may be able to pinpoint the location of vehicles. The value of proprietary data is that the accuracy and timeliness of the information can accelerate certain investigations.

The final story reveals that private group chats and encrypted instant messaging may be the future of the Dark Web. Instead of relying on special software to make online behavior anonymous, message oriented applications allow bad actors to work on the public Internet, safe from the eyes of investigators. Stephen E Arnold, author of CyberOSINT: Next Generation Information Access, said: “Encryption is an issue. DarkCyber anticipates that the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia will aggressively seek back doors. The time and cost of traditional decryption are prohibitive as the volume of encrypted messages goes up.”

DarkCyber is released each week on Tuesday. The next program will be available on December 25, 2018.

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 major law enforcement and intelligence conferences and training programs. 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 and the use of smart software for law enforcement and intelligence applications. He publishes the free Web log “Beyond Search,” which is available at www.arnoldit.com/wordpress.

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