Handbook

Cybercrime examines how the online world has borne new crimes and law enforcement responses, as well as investigates how the computer has become both a target of attack and a tool for criminal activity. Cybercrime explores a number of emerging cybercrimes (cyber-stalking, hacking, and attacks to critical infrastructure), and also explores how old crimes are affected in new mediums (organised crime, electronic theft, pornography, child abuse materials, and peer-to-peer filesharing systems). How do nation-states regulate criminal activity of those persons and organizations located abroad? Additional topics include cyber-terrorism, hactivism, information warfare, and digital forensics. A technical background is not essential.

Main Topics

• Introduction: The nature of cybercrime
• National and international legal and policy frameworks
• The technologies behind cybercrime (domain name system, web-poisoning, web hi-jacking, fast-flux, rock phish, dynamic ip addresses, spam, botnets, irc, p2p, encrypted channels)
• Electronic theft and corporate espionage
• Malware, viruses, hacking
• Cyber-stalking
• Child pornography and child abuse materials
• Criminal enforcement of intellectual property rights (Copyright and illicit p2p fileswapping)
• Security, cyber-terrorism, and attacks to critical infrastructure
• Digital forensics issues
• Hands-on forensics examination (In computer lab).