hubie writes:A Nature Scientific Reports paper looks at the dynamics of illicit web sites and finds that the ecosystem is very resilient. They found that when a web site is shuttered due to law enforcement activity or an exit scam, the closures mainly affected low activity users while high activity users migrate quickly to a new marketplace. The also found that two-thirds of the users who choose to move to a new dark site choose to follow each other to the new site: the marketplace that receives the largest number of migrating users tends to have the largest volume and the most users in common with the closed marketplace.
hubie writes:Money laundering comes in all shapes and sizes. Money can be handled domestically within the country where it was acquired, it can be moved internationally to a location deemed better suited to mask its origin, or a country could be an intermediary where money just flows though from Country A to Country B. These days there are inter-governmental efforts to monitor suspicious financial transactions to curb illicit money laundering, and key to these efforts are attempts to understand how ``dirty'' funds move around the world.Researchers from The Netherlands and Austria developed a model to understand how money moves around. Their model is based upon a gravity model, which is very commonly used in the social sciences for modeling complex flow interactions such as commuter and pedestrian traffic, drug cartel activity, and international trade. These models get their name and inspiration from Newton's Law of Gravity which has that the interaction strength between bodies is dependent upon the sizes of the bodies and inversely with the distance between them.
canopic jug writes:Let's Encrypt, the non-profit certificate authority which provides X.509 certificates for Transport Layer Security encryption at no charge, has an update on the progress towards universal acknowledgement of its root certificate in software and firmware. The cross signature which it has purchased will expire next September, so there is a hard deadline for finalization. There are only a few barriers remaining, one of which is the old versions of Android still in use.
Michigan Votes to Require Warrants for Police to Seize and Search Digital DevicesRunaway1956 writes in with an IRC submission:Michigan votes to require warrants for police to seize and search digital devices:
upstart writes in with an IRC submission:New technology allows cameras to capture colors invisible to the human eye: Applications in cancer detection, security and even gaming:
upstart writes in with an IRC submission:HKU scientists reveal an antirheumatic metallodrug canresurrect "last-resort" antibiotics to kill multi-drug resistant superbugs:
rigrig writes:Researchers have demonstrated they can read what people are typing during video calls by looking at shoulder movements.This horrifying Zoom hack will deter you from ever side-chatting again:
hoeferbe writes:California voters decided on Tuesday to keep Uber, Lyft and other app-based ride-hailing and delivery service drivers classified as independent contractors. Coverage from Associated Press and Forbes.