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

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Future Internet is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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