Ayeleso Emmanuel Celestine and Parsa Vafaie from the University of Ottawa presented their analysis of data from the Statistics Canada Cybercrime Survey at our 2019 Workshop in Ottawa. This was as part of a competition aiming to better align recent evidence and statistics with best practices for business. Participants thoroughly examined the data from Statistics …
Much case has been made of the use of sophisticated anonymity tools by financial fraudsters that hack financial institutions and steal personal and financial information. Our past research has shown that these technologies were used to protect the fraudsters’ privacy and to facilitate their attacks against financial institutions. Our latest interactions and analysis of the …
La fraude en ligne englobe tous les types de fraude, tels que la fraude par marketing de masse, la fraude sur les redevances d’avance et le vol d’identité. Les cas de fraude en ligne sont à la hausse au Canada. En 2017, selon Statistique Canada, 13 426 cas de fraude en ligne ont été signalés …
Online fraud are any type of fraud such as mass marketing fraud, advance fee fraud and identification theft. Online fraud in Canada are on the rise. In 2017, 13,426 cases of online fraud were reported to authorities according to Statistics Canada — nearly double the number reported in 2014. Using psychological and criminological theories, Monica …
We all have questions about Cybersecurity, but there are some people who have answers. SERENE-RISC brings a series of interviews with researchers finding answers to find out more about their work, themselves and the future for cybersecurity and cybercrime research. *** Last November, Jonathan Lusthaus was the guest of the International Centre for Comparative Criminology …
Criminology studies on determinants of reporting crimes have been growing for the past decades. It is important for victims to report crimes to help police organizations acknowledge the prevalence of different types of crime. Prevalence of cybercrime has increased and is now becoming part of individuals’ everyday life. While the literature about determinants of reporting …
Script theory is well known to criminologists. This approach of studying crime allows one to break down criminal acts into a series of steps and is useful when analyzing the processes, decisions and actions of offenders. Generally, these scripts are used to study offenses such as crime against property (e.g. theft), suicide bombings or carjacking. …
Presented at the SERENE-RISC Workshop 2017, April. In this talk Dr. Gabriella Coleman will provide a history of Anonymous’ crucial role in establishing a novel style of hacking-for-leaking: public disclosure hacks. In contrast to traditional whistle-blowing—instigated by insiders who possess intimate awareness of wrongdoing and access to documents that can prove it—a public disclosure hack …
Understanding the Simplicity Behind IoT Botnets: A Case Study of a Social Media Fraud Provider Masarah Paquet-Clouston, GoSecure Presented at the SERENE-RISC Workshop, April 2017 Who would want to be liked by an army of robots? The size of a social media account’s audience is considered to be a measure of the influence of a …
Presented at the SERENE-RISC Workshop, 2017 October Instances of cybercrime are now a daily occurrence and many of these attacks affect us all. The threat landscape is constantly changing and evolving and the threat actors are no longer “hackers” lurking in the shadows. Cyber-attacks have been shown to cause mass disruption, widespread panic, and in …