Cybercrime Risks and Responses Eastern and Western Perspectives

This volume examines the most recent and contentious issues in relation to cybercrime facing the world today, and how best to address them. The chapters come from established international scholars and policy practitioners in the fields of cybercrime and computer forensics. Their contributions show how Eastern and Western nations are responding to the challenges of cybercrime, and the latest trends and issues in cybercrime prevention and control.

This important book represents a compendium of current knowledge on some of the most pressing cybercrime concerns facing governments and industries globally and represents a review of best practice responses to the problems identified. It will be of great interest to policy analysts, law enforcement and industry specialists, as well as academic scholars.

Russell G. Smith is Principal Criminologist at the Australian Institute of Criminology and head of the Transnational, Organised and Cyber Crime Program. He has published extensively on aspects of cybercrime, fraud control and professional regulation.
 
Ray Chak-Chung Cheung is Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include cryptographic hardware designs and design exploration of System-on-Chip (SoC) designs and embedded system designs.
 
Laurie Lau is an entrepreneur and philanthropist in Hong Kong. He holds a doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities, Law and Social Sciences at the University of Glamorgan, UK. He has wide experience in research on policing internet-related crime, technology and society and is currently Chair of the Asia Pacific Association of Technology and Society (APATAS).

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