Profiling Hackers

Chiesa, Raoul; Ducci, Stefania; Ciappi, Silvio

doi:10.1201/9781420086942

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“…Alongside knowledge, schools and universities also provide their students with access to advanced networked systems without which it is much harder to commit cybercrime [ 25 , 26 , 67 ]. For example, by hacking into a university’s network, an individual can access much greater computer capacity for committing a digital attack than what is possible with only a home computer [ 7 ]. Similar to what has been discussed with respect to employment in the IT-sector above, criminal organizations may directly contact IT-students as well [ 3 ].…”

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Cyber-Offending and Traditional Offending over the Life-Course: an Empirical Comparison

Kranenbarg

Ruiter

Gelder

et al. 2018

J Dev Life Course Criminology

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Purpose This paper argues that cyber-dependent offending differs in important ways from other types of offending, which poses challenges to established life-course criminological explanations. Moreover, this study examines to what extent life circumstances in both private and professional life are differentially related to cyber-offending and traditional offending. Methods This study analyzes longitudinal registration data of all adults who have been at least once suspected of a cybercrime (N = 870) and/or a traditional crime (N = 1,144,740) in the Netherlands during the period of 2000-2012. Using fixed effects panel models, withinperson effects of household composition, employment, and enrollment in education on the likelihood of cyber-offending are compared with those for traditional offending.Results Similar results are found with respect to individual's private lives. An individual is less likely to commit cybercrime as well as traditional crime in years in which that individual shares a household with a partner, whether with or without children, than in other years. For the professional life, several important differences are found. Employment and enrollment in education are not statistically significantly related to cyberoffending, whereas they reduce the likelihood of traditional offending. In fact, for these professional life circumstances, opposite effects are found in this population. Conclusions This first study to empirically compare cyber-offending and traditional offending over the life-course finds important similarities and differences. The results hint at the importance of possible cybercriminal opportunities provided by otherwise preventive professional life circumstances.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cyber-Offending and Traditional Offending over the Life-Course: an Empirical Comparison

Kranenbarg

Ruiter

Gelder

et al. 2018

J Dev Life Course Criminology

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“…It reveals a highly negative connotation of hackers with respect to their presumed motivation (e.g., bad, malicious, and/or illicit; respectively damage, disrupt, and harm for the incentives). The attackers' backgrounds are significantly different [16], [37], and there is no obvious differentiation from the rest of the population [11], [31]. The high dominance of malicious motives is not supported in scientific studies trying to quantify hacker motives.…”

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Motivation-based Attacker Modelling for Cyber Risk Management: A Quantitative Content: Analysis and a Natural Experiment

Kaiser

Wiens

Schultmann

2021

JISCR

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Cyber-attacks have a tremendous impact on worldwide economic performance. Hence, it is vitally important to implement effective risk management for different cyber-attacks, which calls for profound attacker models. However, cyber risk modelling based on attacker models seems to be restricted to overly simplified models. This hinders the understanding of cyber risks and represents a heavy burden for efficient cyber risk management. This work aims to forward scientific research in this field by employing a multi-method approach based on a quantitative content analysis of scientific literature and a natural experiment. Our work gives evidence for the oversimplified modelling of attacker motivational patterns. The quantitative content analysis gives evidence for a broad and established misunderstanding of attackers as being illicitly malicious. The results of the natural experiment substantiate the findings of the content analysis. We thereby contribute to the improvement of attacker modelling, which can be considered a necessary prerequisite for effective cyber risk management.

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“…This entails every illegal means of gaining unauthorised access to computer system or networks (Chiesa et al , 2008, pp. 20, 87, 136).…”

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Borderless crimes and digital forensic: Nigerian perspectives

Arewa

2018

JFC

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Purpose This paper aims to determine the extent to which the myriad of cybercrimes is within the purview of extant Nigerian laws against the backdrop of the modicum of legal and institutional mechanisms available at international law for combating cybercrimes. Design/methodology/approach This study is library based. It relies on secondary data generated by the variegated multilateral agencies, law reports of international and municipal tribunals, relevant books, journals, monographs policy papers and so forth as the basis of analysis. Findings Findings suggest that cybercrimes are very difficult to unravel because their traces are imperceptible and require highly specialised skills and digital protocols to find, store and save them for evidential purposes. Such gathered evidence are in the form of digital data stored in variegated hardware and software media, such as storage peripherals, electronic components, working memory, hard discs and external discs. The difficulty is how to identify, weigh for evidential value and capture the multiplicity of evidence unearthed in a digital forensic investigation. The foregoing underscores the digital forensic problematic which is engendered by the difficulties of contriving a thoroughgoing concept of digital evidence given the malleable nature of the variegated storage media. Practical implications This paper engenders considerable acquaintance of the entire sphere of digital crimes and cyber threats, which is contended with in the information epoch, and recommends both legal and institutional mechanisms to counter the clear, real and present danger, which digital crimes represent for the survival of human civilisation, sustainable economic growth and development. Originality/value This paper dwells on the infinite potentiality of deploying the instrumentality of national and international law to deter, control and prosecute the myriad of cybercrimes.

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Profiling Hackers

Cited by 31 publications

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Cyber-Offending and Traditional Offending over the Life-Course: an Empirical Comparison

Cyber-Offending and Traditional Offending over the Life-Course: an Empirical Comparison

Motivation-based Attacker Modelling for Cyber Risk Management: A Quantitative Content: Analysis and a Natural Experiment

Borderless crimes and digital forensic: Nigerian perspectives

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