with the rapid development of industrialization, security situation becomes more and more serious in China. Many cities have established crime prevention systems in order to maintain social stability. With the number of crime prevention system increasing, we need to assess their effectiveness in a scientific and objective manner and establishes a risk optimization model on crime prevention syst...

Programmers’ lack of knowledge and ability in secure development threatens everyone who uses mobile apps. There’s no consensus on how to empower app programmers to get that knowledge. Based on interviews with twelve industry experts we argue that the discipline of secure app development is still at an early stage. Only once industry and academia have produced effective app developer motivation ...

The impact of crime on general welfare is profound. Those most directly impacted are the victims of crime. By one estimate, the combination of direct monetary losses and the costs of pain and suffering among crime victims in the United States amounts to 0.5–0.7 percent of GDP (Freeman 1996). Beyond these direct costs are substantial indirect costs associated with reducing the threat of crime. I...

Federal laws require the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences (jointly referred to as the “Medical College” or “WMC”) of Cornell University to annually distribute information concerning campus security and crime prevention. The following summary is provided to all students and employees, as well as applicants for admission and employment upon request...

Internet today is the main medium rapidly delivering information that we need. The information is delivered via a vast number of services that make our life become faster and more conscious. The question is at what price? The solutions devised by humans are prone to errors, which furthermore entail a new type of security challenge – cyber crime. With this paper we try to show that autonomous in...

Damon McCoy is an assistant professor in the CS department at George Mason University. He obtained his PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and his research includes work on anonymous communication systems, cyber-physical security, e-crime, and wireless privacy. [email protected] Geoffrey M. Voelker is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego. He w...

cyber crime is an ever increasing threat to the security of computer systems. Break-in methods are becoming more and more sophisticated and complicated. This necessitates the use of complex security systems and makes it difficult – sometimes almost impossible – to catch offenders. This makes it necessary to search for new methods of hunting offenders, going beyond information technology methods...