Rafiqul Islam - Inside the Dark Web

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My deepest gratitude goes to my wife, Arzu, and two kids, Jemre and Azra, for all your support and endless love. I know I steal a lot of time from you and spend it in my career; thats why I cannot thank you enough. Your endless love and support is just motivating me to do even more.

My parentsthey never went to school; they never had a chance to read and write. But all their life, they worked really hard for me to get an education and no words can explain how thankful I am for all that you have done. The same credit goes to my brothers, Sedat & Serdal; they supported me during my early education, and this simple line of thanks cannot reflect the respect I have for both of you.

My special thanks to Dr. Rafiqul Islam for his unwavering support and collegiality throughout this journey. Your patience, motivation, and guidance has helped me throughout my research while I was completing my Doctorate and writing this book.

Dr. Erdal Ozkaya is a leading Cybersecurity Professional with business development, management and Academic skills who focuses on securing the Cyber Space & sharing his real-life skills as a Security Adviser, Speaker, Lecturer and Author.

Erdal is known to be passionate about reaching communities and creating cyber aware campaigns and leveraging new and innovative approaches and technologies to holistically address the information security and privacy needs for every person and organization in the world. He has authored many cybersecurity books as well as security certification courseware and exams for different vendors.

Erdal has the following qualifications: Doctor of Philosophy in Cybersecurity. Master of Computing Research, Master of Information Systems Security, Bachelor of Information Technology, Microsoft Certified Trainer, Microsoft Certified Learning Consultant, ISO27001 Auditor and Implementer, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Certified Ethical Instructor and Licensed Penetration Tester. He is an award-winning technical Expert and Speaker: His recent awards are: Microsoft Circle of Excellence Platinum Club (2017), NATO Center of Excellence (2016) Security Professional of the year by MEA Channel Magazine (2015), Professional of the year Sydney (2014), and many speaker of the year awards in conferences.

He also holds Global Instructor of the year awards from EC Council and Microsoft. Erdal is also a part time lecture at Australian Charles Sturt University

Erdals Twitter: https://twitter.com/Erdal_Ozkaya

Erdals Blog: www.ErdalOzkaya.com

Dr. Rafiqul Islam has more than 15 years of teaching and research experiences at different universities in Australia and overseas. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor in Computing at Charles Sturt University (CSU), Australia, and leading the Cyber Security Research Group (CSRG) since 2014. He has a strong research background in cybersecurity with a specific focus on malware analysis and classification, dark web, authentication, dark web threat analysis, security in the cloud, privacy in social media, and Internet of Things (IoT). Dr. Islam has been involved, as General Chair, Cahir, and member of the organizing committee in a number of international conferences and acting as a member of an editorial team of different international journals. He has a strong publication record and has published more than 160 peer-reviewed scholarly research papers, book chapters, and books. His contributions have been recognized as evidenced by numerous national and international recognition and awards.

The dark web is an internet content that exists in the World Wide Web ecosystem but is only accessible through specific software/browser. The anonymity around dark web paves way to plenty of illegal activities leading to cyberattacks. Having a sound knowledge around dark web will act as an important skill for cybersecurity professionals.

The aims of this book are to provide a broad overview of emerging digital threats and computer crimes, with an emphasis on cyberstalking, hacktivism, fraud and identity theft, and attacks on critical infrastructure. The book also analyzes the online underground economy and digital currencies and cybercrime on the dark web. The book further explores how dark web crimes are conducted on the surface web in new mediums, such as IoT (Internet of Things) and peer-to-peer file sharing systems.

The reader will also be able to understand dark web forensics and mitigating techniques.

This book will start with the fundamentals of dark web along with explaining the threat landscape of dark net. The book will then introduce the Tor browser, which is used to access the dark web ecosystem. The book will continue to look on the deep dive into cybersecurity criminal activities in the dark net and will analyze the malpractices used to secure your system. Furthermore, the book will also dig deeper into forensics of dark web, web content analysis, and threat intelligence, IoT, crypto market, and cryptocurrencies. This book will act as a comprehensive guide for those who want to understand dark right from the scratch.

This book will help to understand/learn

• The get up and running with the core concept of dark web.

• Different theoretical and cross-disciplinary approaches of the dark web and also the evolution of the dark web in the context of emerging crime threats.