Developments in Cybercrime and Cybercrime Mitigation

A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903).

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ANU Cybercrime Observatory, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia

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Dear Colleagues,

Cybercrime is a multidisciplinary area that encompasses law, computer science, psychology, psychophysiology, economics and finance, telecommunications, data analytics, and policing. Cybercrime is a timely issue, which presents numerous and constantly evolving challenges to academic, private sector, government, and law enforcement agencies. The decentralized nature of the Internet makes this a global issue that cannot be solved by a single company or country alone. This is especially the case given the high level of sophistication, commercialization, and organization of cybercrime attacks. Cybercrime has implications for national, supranational, and international legislation, cooperation between law enforcement organizations, cooperation between the public and private sectors, and for international coordination against transnational crime. This call for papers will produce a journal on cybercrime and cyber security. Researchers, academics, and practitioners are invited to submit original work, research papers, laboratory experiments, case studies, and experience reports.

This Special Issue aims to foster state-of-the-art research in the area of cybercrime and cyber security.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Ÿthe changing nature of cybercrime: threats and trends
  • Ÿcybercrime regulation, policy recommendations, and responses
  • Ÿtechnical measures to combat cybercrime: techniques, judicial processes, legal/ethical issues, and cybercrime legislations
  • Ÿelectronic evidence and criminal justice
  • Ÿcybercrime detection and prevention
  • Ÿmalware analysis, attribution, forensics, and reverse-engineering
  • Ÿspam emails, statistical analysis, and data mining
  • Ÿcybercrime victims and offenders: psychology and profiling
  • Ÿcybercrime investigations, concerning, e.g., computer and mobile forensics, online fraud, money laundering, hacking, malware, and botnets, sexual abuse of children on the Internet, software and media piracy, etc.
  • Ÿcloud security, privacy, and compliance challenges
  • Ÿmisuse of personal data and the right to online privacy vs. anonymity

Dr. Mamoun Alazab
Dr. Ameer Al-Nemrat
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • cybercrime
  • cyber security
  • information security
  • malware
  • spam
  • cybercrime prevention
  • cybercrime detection
  • cloud security
  • computer forensic investigation
  • cybercrime victims
  • cybercrime offenders
  • cybercrime regulation
  • child pornography

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Reducing Risky Security Behaviours: Utilising Affective Feedback to Educate Users
by Lynsay A. Shepherd, Jacqueline Archibald and Robert Ian Ferguson
Future Internet 2014, 6(4), 760-772; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi6040760 - 27 Nov 2014
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Despite the number of tools created to help end-users reduce risky security behaviours, users are still falling victim to online attacks. This paper proposes a browser extension utilising affective feedback to provide warnings on detection of risky behaviour. The paper provides an overview [...] Read more.
Despite the number of tools created to help end-users reduce risky security behaviours, users are still falling victim to online attacks. This paper proposes a browser extension utilising affective feedback to provide warnings on detection of risky behaviour. The paper provides an overview of behaviour considered to be risky, explaining potential threats users may face online. Existing tools developed to reduce risky security behaviours in end-users have been compared, discussing the success rates of various methodologies. Ongoing research is described which attempts to educate users regarding the risks and consequences of poor security behaviour by providing the appropriate feedback on the automatic recognition of risky behaviour. The paper concludes that a solution utilising a browser extension is a suitable method of monitoring potentially risky security behaviour. Ultimately, future work seeks to implement an affective feedback mechanism within the browser extension with the aim of improving security awareness. Full article
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