Strong encryption algorithms and reliable anonymity routing have made cybercrime
investigation more challenging. Hence, one option for law enforcement agencies (LEAs) is …

Abstract The online cryptomarket Silk Road has been oft-characterised as an 'eBay for
drugs' with customers drug consumers making personal use-sized purchases. Our research …

As violent extremists continue to surface in online discussion forums, law enforcement
agencies search for new ways of uncovering their digital indicators. Researchers have both …

In recent years, researchers have shown a vested interest in developing advanced
information technologies, machine-learning algorithms, and risk-assessment tools to detect …

Purpose With the proliferation of terrorist/extremist websites on the World Wide Web, it has
become progressively more crucial to detect and analyze the content on these websites …

The Tor Network, a hidden part of the Internet, is becoming an ideal hosting ground for
illegal activities and services, including large drug markets, financial frauds, espionage …

The abundance of data easily accessible on the internet has made it an appealing domain
for conducting social science research. Because of the volume of data available, automated …

Purpose–This chapter examines how sentiment analysis and web-crawling technology can
be used to conduct large-scale data analyses of extremist content online. Methods/approach …

Given the extreme heterogeneity of actors and groups participating in terrorist actions,
investigating and assessing their characteristics can be important to extract relevant …

As the data generated on the internet exponentially increases, developing guided data
collection methods become more and more essential to the research process. This paper …