The dark web is in decline. Once the preferred means for anonymizing users’ online activity, the dark web has now been supplanted by encrypted mobile applications and alternate solutions. Similarly, aggressive law enforcement actions have shuttered many of the dark web’s largest forums, making it a much more fleeting and...
The consequence of employing poor managed attribution practices is exposure—exposure of your online activities, your professional affiliation, and, potentially your true identity.
As nationwide stay-at-home orders extend further into the spring, we’ve all had the extent of our creativity and adaptability tested. We’ve attended virtual happy hours (let’s be honest, not as fun as they were in March), whipped our coffee (tastes fine; worth the Instagram post), and baked bread (both sourdough and banana, not bragging). At this point, it’s clear that there are few...
Quarantine has created an unprecedented need for video conferencing. Can you be sure the apps you’re using are adhering to the privacy practices promised in their terms of service?
By now, many of us are in the midst of a prolonged period of telework brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, entire sectors of government, including civilian agencies and the defense and national security workforces, have shifted to remote operations. This has created a large group of analysts, operators,...
In this webcast, Mitch Freddura, Program Manager of our Ntrepid Academy, walked through the fundamentals and best practices of managing your online attribution, defined the landscape of the clear and deep web, and covered useful online research techniques.
Transforming open source data into intelligence, or OSINT, has become increasingly complex over the last decade. Although more open sources are available to operators, the dramatic increase of false information and adversarial counter attacks online have made the collection of data an even more tedious process. Known as the OSINT...
So what is a bot? Bots are programs that are designed to engage on social media platforms, often leveraging the platform’s API infrastructure, without requiring human intervention.
Law enforcement is able to obtain much of the information they need to connect suspects to their crimes by analyzing activity on various social media platforms.
The Tor browser is not impenetrable, nor is it as secure as many presume. It does provide access to hidden service sites, thereby making it a conduit to the dark web.
