The exponential growth of cybercrimes continues to wreak havoc on governments, businesses, and individuals, and there has been progress in combating these crimes, even leading to near ubiquitous recognition of the cybercrime problem. Eileen Decker focuses the reader on the lack of understanding of these disastrous crimes as derivative of a lack of collection and… Continue reading Full Count?: Crime Rate Swings, Cybercrime Misses and Why We Don’t Really Know the Score
Category: Cyberespionage
Advancing Accurate & Objective Cybercrime Metrics
Cybercrime has increased dramatically in this century. Although there is broad academic consensus that a dearth of official data on crimes committed in cyberspace hampers cybercrime enforcement efforts, even the most affluent nations have not yet managed to systematically catalogue cybercrime statistics. Through a detailed analysis of efforts to keep track of this ever-evolving area… Continue reading Advancing Accurate & Objective Cybercrime Metrics
Persistent Enforcement: Criminal Charges as a Response to Nation-State Malicious Cyber Activity
Malicious cyber activities by foreign states present major challenges to the US government. Foreign governments steal intellectual property, attack election systems, wage influence campaigns, and cripple American companies. One tool brought to bear most recently against these state actors is the criminal indictment. This article reviews the use of criminal charges as a response to… Continue reading Persistent Enforcement: Criminal Charges as a Response to Nation-State Malicious Cyber Activity