Cybercrime Risks and Responses: Eastern and Western Perspectives

by Russell G. Smith (Editor), Ray Cheung (Editor), Laurie Yiu-Chung Lau (Editor)

Overview

This book examines the most recent and contentious issues in relation to cybercrime facing the world today, and how best to address them. The contributors show how Eastern and Western nations are responding to the challenges of cybercrime, and the latest trends and issues in cybercrime prevention and control.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137474155
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/14/2014
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.70(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Mamoun Alazab, Australian National University, Australia. Martin Bouchard, Simon Fraser University, Canada. Roderic Broadhurst, Australian National University, Australia Barry Cartwright, Simon Fraser University, Canada. Ray Chak-Chung Cheung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. SAR Lennon Y.C. Chang, Monash University, Australia. Yachi Chiang, National Taipei University of Technology, Intellectual Property Graduate Institute, Taiwan Darrell Chan, People's Public Security University of China, China. Garth Davies, Simon Fraser University, Canada Richard Frank, Simon Fraser University, Canada. Peter Grabosky, Australian National University, Australia. Alice Hutchings, University of Cambridge, UK Lachlan James, Independent Scholar Laurie Yiu-Chung Lau, Asia Pacific Association of Technology and Society Andy K.H. Leung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. SAR Shu-Pui Li, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong SAR Paul Tak Shing Liu, Ritzy Research Institute Limited, Hong Kong SAR Alana Maurushat, University of New South Wales, Australia Fernando Miró, Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Spain Charles Mok, Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. SAR Russell G. Smith, Australian Institute of Criminology, Australia. Gregor Urbas, University of Canberra, Australia Dawei Wang, People's Public Security University of China, China. George Weir, University of Strathclyde, UK.

Table of Contents

Foreword; The Hon. Charles Mok

1. Introduction: Cybercrime Risks and Responses - Eastern and Western Perspectives; Russell G Smith, Ray Chak-Chung Cheung and Laurie Yiu-Chung Lau

PART I: UNDERSTANDING CYBERCRIME THROUGH RESEARCH
2. Trajectories of Cybercrime; Russell G. Smith
3. Ethical, Legal and Methodological Considerations in Cyber-Research: Conducting a Cyber-Ethnography of www.bullying.org; Barry E. Cartwright
4. That Cyber-Routines, That Cybervictimization: Profiling Victimes of Cybercrime; Fernando Miró

PART II: CONTEMPORARY CYBERCRIME RISKS
5. Organized Cybercrime and National Security; Peter Grabosky
6. Internet Fraud in Hong Kong: An Analysis of a Sample of Court Cases; Laurie Yiu-Chung Lau
7. The Role of Spam in Cybercrime; Data from the Australian Cybercrime Pilot Observatory; Mamoun Alazab and Roderic Broadhurst
8. Quantifying Sexually Explicit Language; George Weir
9. Spreading the Message Digitally; A Look Into Extremist Organizations' Use of the Internet; Richard Frank, Martin Bouchard, Garth Davies and Joseph Mei
10. Criminals in the Cloud: Crime, Security Threats and Prevention Measures; Alice Hutchings, Russell G. Smith and Lachlan James

PART III: INDUSTRY, CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND FORENSIC RESPONSES TO CYBERCRIME
11. Hong Kong's Experience in Strengthening the Security Measures of Retail Payment Services; Shu-Pui Li
12. Banking Security: A Hong Kong Perspective; Paul Tak Shing Liu
13. Complicity in Cyberspace: Applying Doctrines of Accessorial Liability to Online Groups; Gregor Urbas
14. Profiling Cybercrime Perpetrators in China and Its Policy Countermeasures; Darrell Chan and Dawei Wang

PART IV: PRIVACY AND FREEDOM ONLINE
15. When Privacy Meets Social Networking Sites - With Special Reference to Facebook; Yachi Chiang
16. An Introduction of Cyber-Crowdsourcing (Human Flesh Searching) in the Greater China Region; Lennon Y.C. Chang and Andy K.H. Leung
17. Hacktivism and Whistleblowing in the Era of Forced Transparency?; Alana Maurushat