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Written by Doris Buddenberg

Congratulations your identity has been sold!

All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization -
is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.
(Albert Einstein)

Over the last years we have witnessed changes as we analyzed criminal trends and elaborated new strategies to confront crime. New scenarios have emerged, which have obliged us to improve knowledge and to rethink strategies. These changes are the direct consequences of a wired world driven by global markets where frontiers are abolished mainly in the name of economics. This new world, dominated by new information and communication technologies, has also redefined the criminals’ profile and their modus operandi.

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Hackers Profiling: Who Are the Attackers? Print PDF

Written by Raoul Chiesa

Who is attacking you? “We don’t know...”

When talking about attackers and hacking it often happens that I ask people working at customer’s sites “who is scaring you?” Most of the time the answer I hear is not “Well, you know… I’m scared by script kids, playing with those couple of unpatched machines I have,” nor is it “I’m really scared about industrial spies.” Rather, 98% of the time the answer is “I don’t know.”

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Cyber Crime and Organized Crime Print PDF

Written by Tatiana Tropina

The current era of cybercrime is no longer dominated by hackers accessing computer systems just for fun or notoriety. The development and growth of the digital economy has changed the criminal landscape dramatically.

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Online Crimes against Children Print PDF

Written by John Carr

The emergence of the Internet as a mass consumer product has not necessarily created any entirely new genres of crime, but it has certainly given a new twist to some very old and familiar ones.

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Avoid Becoming a Victim of Cybercrime Print PDF

Written by Scot Huntsberry

The news is full of reports detailing the stories of victims who have lost thousands, even millions, of dollars at the hands of cyber criminals. Many of us know someone who has already been the victim of one of these crimes.

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