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2. Introduction To Online Threats and Countermeasures

Nihad A. Hassan1  and Rami Hijazi2
(1)
New York, USA
(2)
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
 

As you do your research for OSINT, you will certainly leave digital traces behind that can be used to track you. For example, consider an investigator performing an online search for drug dealers in Mexico. What if the people the investigator was searching for discovers his search? What if they could learn the source of the search (the organization or the person behind the search) and the searcher’s location? If you think that criminal organizations are not technically ...

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