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Understanding Digital Content and Services Ecosystems the Role of Content and Services in Boosting Internet Adoption
Understanding digital content and services ecosystems The role of content and services in boosting Internet adoption Strategy& is part of the PwC network Contacts Beirut Düsseldorf Madrid Seattle Chady Smayra Dr. Roman Friedrich José Arias Mathias Herzog Partner Partner Partner Principal, PwC US +961-1-985-655 +49-211-38900 +34-91-411-8450 +1-206-398-3000 chady.smayra roman.friedrich j.arias mathias.herzog @strategyand.ae.pwc.com @strategyand.de.pwc.com @strategyand.es.pwc.com @strategyand.us.pwc.com Rami Maalouf Frankfurt Milan Shanghai Manager +961-1-985-655 Olaf Acker Luigi Pugliese Sarah Butler rami.maalouf Partner Partner Partner @strategyand.ae.pwc.com +49-69-97167-0 +39-02-72-50-91 +86-21-2323-2020 olaf.acker luigi.pugliese butler.sarah Delhi @strategyand.de.pwc.com @strategyand.it.pwc.com @strategyand.au.pwc.com Ashish Sharma Helsinki Paris Vienna Partner +91-124-499-8700 Santeri Kirvelä Pierre Péladeau Klaus Hölbling sharma.ashish Partner Partner Partner @strategyand.pwc.com +358-20-787-7000 +33-1-5657-58590 +43-1-518-22-900 santeri.kirvela pierre.peladeau klaus.hoelbling Doha @strategyand.fi.pwc.com @strategyand.fr.pwc.com @strategyand.at.pwc.com Bahjat El-Darwiche Jakarta Riyadh Partner +974-44026-777 Abhijit Navalekar Hilal Halaoui bahjat.eldarwiche Partner Partner @strategyand.ae.pwc.com +62-21-521-2901 +966-11-249-7781 abhijit.navalekar hilal.halaoui Dubai @strategyand.ae.pwc.com @strategyand.ae.pwc.com Jayant Bhargava London São Paulo Partner +971-4-390-0260 Hugo Trepant Nuno Gomes jayant.bhargava Partner Partner @strategyand.ae.pwc.com +44-20-7583-5000 +55-11-3674-8736 hugo.trepant nuno.gomes Jad Hajj @strategyand.uk.pwc.com @strategyand.br.pwc.com Partner +971-4-390-0260 jad.hajj @strategyand.ae.pwc.com 2 Strategy& About the authors Bahjat El-Darwiche is a partner with Strategy&, part of the PwC network, and is based in Doha. -
Egovernment Stage Model: Evaluating the Rate of Web Development Progress of Government Websites in Saudi Arabia
(IJACSA) International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, Vol. 2, No. 9, 2011 EGovernment Stage Model: Evaluating the Rate of Web Development Progress of Government Websites in Saudi Arabia Osama Alfarraj, Steve Drew Rayed Abdullah AlGhamdi ICT School, Griffith University, King Abdulaziz University, Brisbane, Australia Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Abstract – This paper contributes to the issue of eGovernment websites are not well developed or do not yet exist, which implementation in Saudi Arabia by discussing the current absolutely impedes that particular ministry from appropriately situation of ministry websites. It evaluates the rate of web delivering eServices. development progress of vital government websites in Saudi Arabia using the eGovernment stage model. In 2010, Saudi In the study, ‘E-Government in Saudi Arabia: Can it Arabia ranked 58th in the world and 4th in the Gulf region in overcome its challenges?’ conducted by Sahraoui et al. [2], the eGovernment readiness according to United Nations reports. In researchers indicated that only 13 out of 22 Saudi ministries particular, Saudi Arabia has ranked 75th worldwide for its online have an online presence. This represents 60% of the service index and its components compared to the neighbouring ministries. Conducted in 2006, this study was based on a Gulf country of Bahrain, which was ranked 8th for the same survey as well as online browsing and the accessing of over 25 index. While this is still modest in relation to the Saudi government websites to evaluate these -
Cybercrime: Internet Driven Illicit Activities and Behavior
Land Forces Academy Review Vol. XXV, No. 4(100), 2020 CYBERCRIME: INTERNET DRIVEN ILLICIT ACTIVITIES AND BEHAVIOR Maurice DAWSON Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, United States of America [email protected] ABSTRACT Cybercrime affects multiple areas of society with nefarious activities ranging from human trafficking to illegal arms sale. The Internet has allowed some nefarious activities to be revived as others have emerged in this new age. In turn, this has become a national security issue for countries as this requires resources to combat this evolving threat. These activities include undermining legitimate services that provide government services to its citizens, such as passport, national identification, tax services, and more. This paper introduces some of these activities, enabling readers to understand this digital criminal world further. KEYWORDS: cybercrime, human trafficking, dark web, online marketplace, cryptocurrency, disinformation 1. Introduction name a few (Deibert, 2009). Meanwhile, The Internet has allowed for many more countries have been known to use the technological advances that have brought Internet to target political dissidents such as forth positive outcomes. In retrospect, the Cuba, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Gambia, Morocco, Internet has also allowed for criminal North Korea, Russia, and more (Committee activities to flourish. And while both to Protect Journalists, 2020). Even with this positive and negative effects are expected, mentioned censorship and oversight, illicit the use of the Internet by a criminal activities remain on the rise through the organization, nation-states, terrorists, Internet. extremists, and others finds another means In recent years, police and other law to market their illegal activity. As the enforcement organizations have shut down introduction of the technological pages that advocate prostitution. -
Ict-Sector in Ierland
ICT-SECTOR IN IERLAND FLANDERS INVESTMENT & TRADE MARKTSTUDIE ICT-Sector in Ireland December 2016 Flanders Investment & Trade Dublin 1 Elgin Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland [email protected] Content 1 Preface ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 3 2 The Irish Economy ...................................................................................................................................................................... 4 3 ICT-sector .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 3.1 New sectors........................................................................................................................................................................... 6 3.2 Geographical spread ....................................................................................................................................................... 8 4 Rising ICT-sectors ........................................................................................................................................................................ 9 4.1 Social media ......................................................................................................................................................................... 9 4.2 Mobile -
An Evolving Threat the Deep Web
8 An Evolving Threat The Deep Web Learning Objectives distribute 1. Explain the differences between the deep web and darknets.or 2. Understand how the darknets are accessed. 3. Discuss the hidden wiki and how it is useful to criminals. 4. Understand the anonymity offered by the deep web. 5. Discuss the legal issues associated withpost, use of the deep web and the darknets. The action aimed to stop the sale, distribution and promotion of illegal and harmful items, including weapons and drugs, which were being sold on online ‘dark’ marketplaces. Operation Onymous, coordinated by Europol’s Europeancopy, Cybercrime Centre (EC3), the FBI, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Eurojust, resulted in 17 arrests of vendors andnot administrators running these online marketplaces and more than 410 hidden services being taken down. In addition, bitcoins worth approximately USD 1 million, EUR 180,000 Do in cash, drugs, gold and silver were seized. —Europol, 20141 143 Copyright ©2018 by SAGE Publications, Inc. This work may not be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means without express written permission of the publisher. 144 Cyberspace, Cybersecurity, and Cybercrime THINK ABOUT IT 8.1 Surface Web and Deep Web Google, Facebook, and any website you can What Would You Do? find via traditional search engines (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, etc.) are all located 1. The deep web offers users an anonym- on the surface web. It is likely that when you ity that the surface web cannot provide. use the Internet for research and/or social What would you do if you knew that purposes you are using the surface web. -
Into the Reverie: Exploration of the Dream Market
Into the Reverie: Exploration of the Dream Market Theo Carr1, Jun Zhuang2, Dwight Sablan3, Emma LaRue4, Yubao Wu5, Mohammad Al Hasan2, and George Mohler2 1Department of Mathematics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 2Department of Computer & Information Science, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN 3Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Guam, Guam 4Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, AK 5Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Abstract—Since the emergence of the Silk Road market in Onymous" in 2014, a worldwide action taken by law enforce- the early 2010s, dark web ‘cryptomarkets’ have proliferated and ment and judicial agencies aimed to put a kibosh on these offered people an online platform to buy and sell illicit drugs, illicit behaviors [5]. Law enforcement interventions such as relying on cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin for anonymous trans- actions. However, recent studies have highlighted the potential for Onymous, along with exit scams and hacks, have successfully de-anonymization of bitcoin transactions, bringing into question shut down numerous cryptomarkets, including AlphaBay, Silk the level of anonymity afforded by cryptomarkets. We examine a Road, Dream, and more recently, Wall Street [6]. Despite these set of over 100,000 product reviews from several cryptomarkets interruptions, new markets have continued to proliferate. The collected in 2018 and 2019 and conduct a comprehensive analysis authors of [7] note that there appears to be a consistent daily of the markets, including an examination of the distribution of drug sales and revenue among vendors, and a comparison demand of about $500,000 for illicit products on the dark web, of incidences of opioid sales to overdose deaths in a US city. -
Dark and Deep Webs-Liberty Or Abuse
International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism Volume 9 • Issue 2 • April-June 2019 Dark and Deep Webs-Liberty or Abuse Lev Topor, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1836-5150 ABSTRACT While the Dark Web is the safest internet platform, it is also the most dangerous platform at the same time. While users can stay secure and almost totally anonymously, they can also be exploited by other users, hackers, cyber-criminals, and even foreign governments. The purpose of this article is to explore and discuss the tremendous benefits of anonymous networks while comparing them to the hazards and risks that are also found on those platforms. In order to open this dark portal and contribute to the discussion of cyber and politics, a comparative analysis of the dark and deep web to the commonly familiar surface web (World Wide Web) is made, aiming to find and describe both the advantages and disadvantages of the platforms. KeyWoRD Cyber, DarkNet, Information, New Politics, Web, World Wide Web INTRoDUCTIoN In June 2018, the United States Department of Justice uncovered its nationwide undercover operation in which it targeted dark web vendors. This operation resulted in 35 arrests and seizure of weapons, drugs, illegal erotica material and much more. In total, the U.S. Department of Justice seized more than 23.6$ Million.1 In that same year, as in past years, the largest dark web platform, TOR (The Onion Router),2 was sponsored almost exclusively by the U.S. government and other Western allies.3 Thus, an important and even philosophical question is derived from this situation- Who is responsible for the illegal goods and cyber-crimes? Was it the criminal[s] that committed them or was it the facilitator and developer, the U.S. -
Web Index Annual Report 2013.Indd
2013 Contents 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY PAGE 4 Access and skills Page 5 Expanding knowledge and participation Page 6 The Web as a tool for civic engagement and participation Page 6 Freedom and openness Page 6 Recommendations Page 7 2. THE WEB INDEX: A GLOBAL PICTURE PAGE 8 The 2013 Index Structure Page 9 Country Rankings Table Page 10 The Top 10 Page 12 Estonia – Using the Web to Build Democracy Page 13 Costa Rica – ICT as a driver for Economic Change Page 13 Wealth and Web Index Rankings: An Analysis Page 14 3. MEASURING PROGRESS TOWARDS THE INFORMATION SOCIETY PAGE 16 Introduction Page 17 Communication is a fundamental 1. Access to the internet Page 18 - Affordability Page 19 social process, a basic human need - Social barriers Page 19 2. Access to information Page 20 and the foundation of all social 2.1 Can women obtain accurate, unbiased advice on their rights and means of redress? Page 20 - Sexual and reproductive health Page 20 organisation… Everyone, everywhere - Table 2: Gender Differences in HIV&AIDS Knowledge Page 22 - Gender based violence Page 22 should have the opportunity to 2.2 Can farmers get timely early warning signals about climate-related threats? Page 23 2.3 Can parents assess and compare school performance? Page 23 participate and no one should be 2.4 Can citizens track government budget allocations and spending? Page 24 Page 24 2.6 Can SMEs and entrepreneurs use online information to build their businesses? Page 25 Information Society offers. Conclusions Page 25 3. Expanding Citizen Voice and Action Page 27 World Summit on the Information Society Declaration, 2003. -
Assessment of the Web Index
Assessment of the Web Index Survey questionnaire calibration and uncertainty analysis Annoni P. , Weziak-Bialowolska D. and Nardo M. 2012 Report EUR 25476 EN European Commission Joint Research Centre Institute for Security and Protection of the Citizens Contact information Michela Nardo Address: Joint Research Centre, Via Enrico Fermi 2749, TP 361, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy E-mail: [email protected] Tel.: +39 0332 78 5968 Fax: +39 0332 78 5733 http://composite-indicators.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ http://www.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ This publication is a Reference Report by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Legal Notice Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission is responsible for the use which might be made of this publication. Europe Direct is a service to help you find answers to your questions about the European Union Freephone number (*): 00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11 (*) Certain mobile telephone operators do not allow access to 00 800 numbers or these calls may be billed. A great deal of additional information on the European Union is available on the Internet. It can be accessed through the Europa server http://europa.eu/. JRC73977 EUR 25476 EN ISBN 978-92-79-25988-3 ISSN 1831-9424 doi:10.2788 /43830 Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2012 © European Union, 2012 Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged. Printed in Luxembourg Survey ASSESSMENT OF questionnaire calibration and uncertainty THE WEB INDEX analysis Annoni P. , Weziak-Bialowolska D. -
Open Secrecy: How Police Crackdowns and Creative Problem-Solving Brought Illegal Markets out of the Shadows
Open Secrecy 1 Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/sf/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/sf/soz140/5805358 by National University of Singapore user on 17 March 2020 March 17 on user Singapore of University National by https://academic.oup.com/sf/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/sf/soz140/5805358 from Downloaded Open Secrecy Open Secrecy: How Police Crackdowns and Creative Problem-Solving Brought Illegal Markets out of the Shadows Isak Ladegaard, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Monash University an organized illegal activities grow stronger and more advanced in response to legal pressure? In October 2013, the FBI shut down Silk Road, a thriving C e-commerce market for illegal drugs. After the shock, market actors adopted a new identity verification method that enabled mass-migration to other markets, and created websites for information distribution that reduced post-shock uncertainties. The outcome was a decentralized market in which actors could operate in “open secrecy” across multiple websites. With verifiable pseudonyms and securely obfus- cated real-world identities, actors could publicly discuss, plan, and participate in illegal activities. Threats from police and opportunistic criminals persisted but were no longer crippling concerns as buyers and sellers could reasonably expect that their exchange partners would be available for future business; the illegal market could operate more like a legal one. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data, the author argues that advances in information technology have expanded the opportunity structure for cooperation and creative problem-solving in the underworld, and therefore that shocks did not hinder but rather stimulate development in digital drug markets. -
Introduction Points
Introduction Points Ahmia.fi - Clearnet search engine for Tor Hidden Services (allows you to add new sites to its database) TORLINKS Directory for .onion sites, moderated. Core.onion - Simple onion bootstrapping Deepsearch - Another search engine. DuckDuckGo - A Hidden Service that searches the clearnet. TORCH - Tor Search Engine. Claims to index around 1.1 Million pages. Welcome, We've been expecting you! - Links to basic encryption guides. Onion Mail - SMTP/IMAP/POP3. ***@onionmail.in address. URSSMail - Anonymous and, most important, SECURE! Located in 3 different servers from across the globe. Hidden Wiki Mirror - Good mirror of the Hidden Wiki, in the case of downtime. Where's pedophilia? I WANT IT! Keep calm and see this. Enter at your own risk. Site with gore content is well below. Discover it! Financial Services Currencies, banks, money markets, clearing houses, exchangers. The Green Machine Forum type marketplace for CCs, Paypals, etc.... Some very good vendors here!!!! Paypal-Coins - Buy a paypal account and receive the balance in your bitcoin wallet. Acrimonious2 - Oldest escrowprovider in onionland. BitBond - 5% return per week on Bitcoin Bonds. OnionBC Anonymous Bitcoin eWallet, mixing service and Escrow system. Nice site with many features. The PaypalDome Live Paypal accounts with good balances - buy some, and fix your financial situation for awhile. EasyCoin - Bitcoin Wallet with free Bitcoin Mixer. WeBuyBitcoins - Sell your Bitcoins for Cash (USD), ACH, WU/MG, LR, PayPal and more. Cheap Euros - 20€ Counterfeit bills. Unbeatable prices!! OnionWallet - Anonymous Bitcoin Wallet and Bitcoin Laundry. BestPal BestPal is your Best Pal, if you need money fast. Sells stolen PP accounts. -
2011-11 Stop Trafficking
Stop Trafficking ! Anti-Human Trafficking Newsletter Awareness November 2011 Vol. 9 No. 11 This issue highlights methods used to expose sex and Advocacy labor trafficking and the issues feeding it. Action Sponsored by the: Sisters of the Divine Savior Co-Sponsors: •Adorers of the Blood of Christ Exposing •Benedictine Sisters of Chicago •Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica •Cenacle Sisters, N. Amer. Prov. Human Trafficking •Congregation of Notre Dame •Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes ‘Big Porn Inc: Exposing ‘Backpage.com’ •Congregation of St. Joseph the Harms of the Global and Child Sex Trafficking •Daughters of Charity, Prov. of St. Louise •Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, Prov. of West Pornography Industry’ By the time Mr. Barnes was picked •Daughters of the Holy Spirit •Dominican Sisters of Adrian, MI The unprecedented mainstreaming up by Massachusetts state troopers, he •Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose of the global pornography industry had made $19,000 forcing a 15-year- •Dominican Sisters of Peace is transforming the sexual politics of old girl to have sex with up to eight •Dominican Sisters of San Rafael men a day for 10 days. He advertised •Felician Sisters intimate and public life, popularizing •Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart new forms of hardcore misogyny, and her services on Backpage.com, the •Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters strongly contributing to the sexualiza- classified website owned by Village •Holy Union Sisters tion of children. Yet challenges to the Voice Media. •Marianites of Holy Cross In August a Seattle man posing as •Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary pornography industry continue to be •Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary dismissed as ‘uncool’, ‘anti-sex’ and a law enforcement officer allegedly •Salvatorian Priests and Brothers ‘moral panic’.