De-anonymizing of entities on the onion sites operating on TOR Network

 Background: Dark web is being used for illegal purposes and number of market places are being operated by the underground operators which facilitate illegal buying/selling of drugs/weapons/data leaks/counterfeit moneys/documents etc. Platforms, being anonymise to the LEA, make it difficult to identify the market place running on dark web mainly TOR...

de-anonymize fraudulent Tor web servers De-Anonymisation Attacks Onion Services in the Wild De-Anonymisation Attacks on Tor Unveiling Tor Network Hacking Techniques

Virtual Private Network

 This study aimed to identify the differences between state-of-the-art VPN solutions on different operating systems. It was done because a novel VPN protocol is in the early stages of release and a comparison of it, to other current VPN solutions is interesting. It is interesting because current VPN solutions are well established and have existed ...

Enhanced Privacy and Anonymity Secure Remote Access Virtual Private Network Virtual Private Networks (VPN) VPN

Tracing IP Address behind VPN/Proxy Servers

 Under most circumstances, cyber criminals will commit fraudulent transactions using proxy services which hide their real IP address and physical location. This is done in an effort to avoid being tracked and prosecuted by law enforcement agencies. This paper presents the investigation of a proxy detection methodology and efforts to implement such t...

Cloud-Edge Computing for Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things

 This Special Section on ‘`Cloud-Edge Computing for Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things’' is oriented to the dissemination of a few of those latest research and innovation results, covering many aspects of design, optimization, implementation, and evaluation of emerging cloud-edge solutions for CPS and IoT applications. The selected high-q...