Emerging Cybercrime Trends: Legal, Ethical, and Practical Issues

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Author(s): Sean M. Zadig (Nova Southeastern University, USA)and Gurvirender Tejay (Nova Southeastern University, USA)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 20
Source title: Investigating Cyber Law and Cyber Ethics: Issues, Impacts and Practices
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Alfreda Dudley (Towson University, USA), James Braman (Towson University, USA)and Giovanni Vincenti (Towson University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-132-0.ch003

Keywords: Information Ethics / Information Science Reference / IT Security and Ethics / Security & Forensics

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The issue of cybercrime has received much attention of late, as individual and organizational losses from online crimes frequently reach into the hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars per incident. Computer criminals have begun deploying advanced, distributed techniques, which are increasingly effective and devastating. This chapter describes a number of these techniques and details one particularly prevalent trend: the employment of large networks of compromised computers, or botnets, to conduct a wide variety of online crimes. A typology of botnets is provided, and the supporting infrastructure of botnets and other online crime, including bulletproof hosting providers and money mule networks, are described. The chapter also relates a number of the practical, legal, and ethical challenges experienced by practitioners, law enforcement, and researchers who must deal with these emergent threats.

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