With increased access to computers across the world, cybercrime is becoming a major challenge to law enforcement agencies. Cybercrime investigation in India is in its infancy and there has been limited success in prosecuting the offenders; therefore, a need to understand and strengthen the existing investigation methods and systems for controlling cybercrimes is greatly needed. This study ident...

As cybercrime continues to take up a disturbing publicity in the trends that mark our century, the commitment of governments, businesses and the global community to fight this pandemic is not surprising. However, combating this ill will entail identifying, defining and classifying cybercrime. Meanwhile the cybercrime phenomenon is now well known and defined; its classification has been limited ...

A major challenge facing all law-enforcement and intelligence-gathering organizations is accurately and efficiently analyzing the growing volumes of crime data. Cybercrime refers to any crime that involves a computer and network, where computer may or may not play an instrumental part in the commission of the crime. Detection and investigation of cybercrime can likewise be difficult because bus...

Cybercrime is a pervasive threat for today’s Internet-dependent society. While the real extent and economic impact is hard to quantify, scientists and officials agree that cybercrime is a huge and still growing problem. A substantial fraction of cybercrime’s overall costs to society can be traced to indirect opportunity costs, resulting from unused online services. This paper presents a theoret...

With an increasing pervasiveness, prevalence and severity of cybercrimes, various metrics, measures and statistics have been developed and used to measure various aspects of this phenomenon. Cybercrime-related data, metrics, and information, however, pose important and difficult dilemmas regarding the issues of reliability, validity, comparability and practical utility. While many of the issues...

Cybercrime is any IT-based criminal offense. Because freely accessing to the Internet, cybercriminal entities threaten everyone, everywhere, every day. From remote individuals to the most powerful governments, none is absolutely immune from cybercrime constantly-mutating and devastating operations. Fortunately, there are scientific methods and technological means to counter it. This paper attem...

In this discussion paper we have considered the issue of cybercrime. This is now of considerable importance since the growth of E-commerce has increased the risks of various type of Internet crimes which we consider collectively here as cybercrime. It is argued that appropriate policy requires both better data on cybercrimes and more analysis of that data. The approach suggested here is to deve...

The aim of this thesis is to understand and explain organizational interaction in law enforcement decision-making spheres, as a phenomenon that involves the concepts of collaboration, cooperation and information sharing, and the way that these affect cybercrime investigation processes. The problem research steams from the insufficient interdisciplinary work and theoretical developments of socia...

The aim of this article is to describe the cybercrime process and to identify all issues that appear at the different steps, between the detection of incident to the final report that must be exploitable for a judge. It is to identify at all steps, issues and methods to address them. Keywords— cybercrime; detection; forensic analysis

Cybercrime today is a profit-driven enterprise. Viewing computer security through the lens of business incentives in this way helps guide the efforts of policy-makers and researchers, since the effectiveness of countermeasures is directly related to their effect on cybercriminals’ profit motives, the root causes of cybercrime. In this respect, understanding the structure of the cybercrime marke...