Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Cyber Security & Cyber War

There is a large body of knowledge in Video. Video inevitably is deep web as the bots can't understand it.  Infosec tends to have a lot of video therefore this knowledge is hidden from the surface web by the nature of the media.

Today I've updated to entries with a large repository of videos in Infosec-

Cyber War / InfoSec

Iron Geek irongeek.com -- An excellent library of videos explaining many facets of InfoSec and hacking & security

Security Tube - securitytube.net -- A large library of videos covering many topics in InfoSec, cyberwar, and most of the hacking conferences.

DefCon -- The main hackers Con, so well known that now the Feds send their folks here and it has become a wild west training ground for coming trends. Archives go back to Defcon 1. They are now on Defcon 20, I think.

Monday, April 16, 2012

New Deep Web book archive found

The Archaeological Survey of India has quite the index of indian and asian history books. Quite a deep web resource. Some books listed have scanned pdf copies. If not, at least you have identified new sources.

http://deep-web.org/asian-book-archive-found/

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Deep Web Newspaper Archives

Newspaper Archives Online

Some deep web research requires digging in the past for events. One good source for that is newspapers, here are some resources that provide lists of online newspaper archives.

US newspaper coverage - ResearchGuides lists links to many newspapers

Library of Congress Newspaper Resource List - LOC does a great job getting the list together of wonderful newspaper archives.

NewspaperArchive.com - (commercial) - Known for a large collection. I haven't used it, so I can't confirm this.

xooxleanswers.com - Great list of newspaper archives from Xooxle. Good list and a funky name. Two thumbs up.

University of Penn Newspaper Archive - List of US newspaper archives and dates. Looked like a deeper list of Texas newspapers, so this effort my be a deep comprehensive list.

Saturday, April 7, 2012

The Quandry of Judging Author Authrority

Ever found a really interesting article or book on a subject, but not sure how much you should trust the author as an authority?  This is a common problem researchers have over and over and over.

There are several quantatative methods to figure out how much credibility or authority rank to give that author. Take a peek at the methods over at Deep Web

http://deep-web.org/how-to-assign-authors-authority-rank/

 

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Data Clustering Tool for deep web

Some tools for deep web work great, other tools OK. Occasionally, you'll find a tool that does wonderous things, and today we've found one.

It is called Touchgraph, and it shows relationship websites clustered together. http://www.touchgraph.com/seo/launch?q=solar%20power

Using this tool, we've located new deep web assets for several of our projects that we were missing before.  Do give this tool a look over.

Monday, February 13, 2012

Video on Deep Web 101 for Treasure Hunters

Deep Web research is a critical skill for many academics, engineers, and businesses. It is a means to find the right road forward.

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However, I had the opportunity to teach Deep Web 101 to a Metal Detecting Club, as it is very useful in helping them find historic location to hunt.

A video presentation of the talk is available at --

http://deep-web.org/treasure-hunting-deep-web-research-video/

Sunday, February 12, 2012

10 Steps to Vetting online anonymous sources

We've all been stuck in that spot - digging thru deep web on a project and find a possibly valuable snippet of a report but no author listed and we aren't sure about the source. What do you do?

Here what you can do - go down the merry path to find the author and evaluate him or her as best you can. Possibly unlock their identity, address, and ultimately establish their level of authority on what they wrote.

Here is 10 steps to vet online sources.

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