Report

CCSI460 Final Forensic Lab Report

Investigator’s Name: Matt Ferry

Date of Investigation: September 18, 2013

Lab Number and Title: Lab 3 Internet Research

Summary of Findings:

The Deep web is a huge part of the internet that will not be going anywhere anytime soon because of the nature of the Deep Web. The larger the Internet grows the more information that will be located on the deep web, especially when you consider that it is very rapidly becoming common practice for webpages to be dynamic instead of static.

In regards to image mapping tools like Google Earth, and Yahoo maps, I see these technologies doing nothing but improving, eventually to the point where satellite images are no longer years out of date, but potentially only weeks, days or even hours out of date.

Lastly, it does not take much information to turn minimal information into detailed information if someone knows what to look for and where. A Simple search for DeVry University, led to the address , and pictures of the actual building and location, and the corporate website which contained names and photos senior level members that could then lead to even more searches and potentially even more information that a criminal could use.

Details of Investigation:

9/18/13

11:04 AM – Beginning research into “Deep Web”

1. What is meant by the "deep web"?

The deep web is a huge portion of the internet that primarily consists of webpages that are not indexed by search engines. These non-indexed web pages range from dynamic pages that are not capable of being indexed because they are not generated until a database query script generates the page, to that of pages that are not indexed because they are protected by username and password prompts. However, this is not where the deep web ends, because the deep web also consists of a large underground of webpages that exist on hidden anonymizing services or domains that are dynamically generated, such as webpages...