Surfin’ the dark web. It’s Episode 71 of The Criminology Academy podcast! On today’s episode, we have Professor C. Jordan Howell who speaks with us about cybercrime, and more specifically, the illicit supply chain and the way darknet markets enable cyber-attacks!
C. Jordan Howell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of South Florida (USF) and the Director of Sarasota Cybersecurity. Prior to these appointments, he was an Assistant Professor in Intelligence and National Security Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso (2021-2022) and Associate Director of the Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Laboratory (2019-2021). He received his doctorate in criminology from USF in 2021, where he also earned a graduate certificate in digital forensics in 2017 and a master’s in criminology in 2016. Dr. Howell’s research focuses on the human factor of cybercrime. He employs advanced computer science techniques to gather threat intelligence, which is then used to test social scientific theories, build profiles of active cyber-offenders, plot criminal trajectories, and disrupt the illicit ecosystem enabling cybercrime incidents.
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Get in touch with Jordan:
University of South Florida Website // cjhowell AT usf.edu // Twitter
These are the publications authored by Jordan and his colleagues that were discussed in this episode of The Crim Academy:
Howell, C. J. (2023). Predicting which hackers will become persistent threats. AT&T Cybersecurity. [Industry Report Link].
Howell, C. J., and Tremblay, L. (2023) An assessment of ransomware distribution on darknet markets. AT&T Cybersecurity. [Industry Report Link].
Howell, C. J., and Maimon, David. (2022). Darknet markets generate millions in revenue selling stolen personal data, supply chain study finds. The Conversation. [The Conversation Link].