• E4J University Module Series: Cybercrime

• Module 5: Cybercrime Investigation

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• • Reporting cybercrime
  • Who conducts cybercrime investigations?
  • Obstacles to cybercrime investigations
  • Knowledge management
  • Conclusion
  • References

• Exercises

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

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• First published in March 2019
  

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  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

References

 

Materials with this icon can be found in the E4J Library of Resources.

 

Publications and online portals

• Acharyulum, G.V.R.K. (2011), Information Management in a Health Care System: Knowledge Management Perspective. International Journal of Innovation, Management and Technology, Vol. 2(6), 534-537.
• Biros, David P., Mark Weiser and John Witfield. (2007). Managing digital forensic knowledge an applied approach. Proceedings of the 5th Australian Digital Forensics Conference. Edith Cowan University, Perth Western Australia.
• Brown, John Seely and Paul Duguid. (1998). Organizing Knowledge. California Management Review, Vol. 40(3), 90-111.
• Chang, Weiping and Peifang Chung. (2014). Knowledge Management in Cybercrime Investigation - A Case Study of Identifying Cybercrime Investigation Knowledge in Taiwan . Pacific-Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (PAISI 2014: Intelligence and Security Informatics), pp. 8-17.
• Chow, Peter. (2012). Surfing the Web Anonymously - The Good and Evil of the Anonymizer. SANS Institute InfoSec Reading Room.
• Citizen Lab (n.d.). Research .
• Cybercrime Centres of Excellence Network for Training, Research and Education. (n.d.). 2Centre.
• Dean, Geoff, Cathrine Filstad, and Petter Gottschalk. (2006). Knowledge Sharing in Criminal Investigations: An Empirical Study of Norwegian Police as Value Shop. Criminal Justice Studies, Vol. 19(4), 423-437.
• Dicke, Michael S. and Alexis I. Caloza. (2018). Yahoo's $35M SEC Settlement: Takeaways from the First Enforcement Action for Failure to Disclose a Data Breach . Fenwick and West LLP, 3 May 2018.
• Dixon, Nancy M. (2000). Common knowledge. How companies thrive by sharing what they know. Harvard Business School Press.
• Doan, Quang, Camille Rosenthal-Sabroux, and Michel Grundstein. (2011). A reference model for knowledge retention within small and medium size enterprises . KMIS, 306-311.
• Dredge, Stuart. (2013). What is Tor? A beginner's guide to the privacy tool. The Guardian, 5 November 2013.
• FBI. (n.d.). Cyber Crime. 
• FBI. (n.d.). National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force.
• Europol. (2018c). Darknet Euro Counterfeiter Arrested in Poland .
• Europol. (n.d.). About Europol.
• Europol. (2018b). Crime on the Dark Web: Law Enforcement Coordination is the Only Cure .
• Europol. (2018). 241 Victims of Child Sexual Abuse Safeguarded Thanks to Global Law Enforcement Efforts. Press Release, 26 October 2018.
• Finklea, Kristin. (2017). Dark Web . Congressional Research Service.
• Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre. (2017a). Cybersecurity Capacity Review: Kyrgyz Republic .
• Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre. (2017b). Cybersecurity Capacity Review: Republic of Cyprus .
• Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre. (2017c). Cybersecurity Capacity Review: Republic of Iceland.
• Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre. (2017d). Cybersecurity Capacity Review: Republic of Lithuania.
• Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre. (2016a). Cybersecurity Capacity Review: Republic of Madagascar.
• Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre. (2016b). Cybersecurity Capacity Review: Republic of Senegal. 
• Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre. (2016c). Cybersecurity Capacity Review: United Kingdom.
• Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre. (2016d). Cybersecurity Capacity Review: Republic of Sierra Leone.
• Gottschalk, Peter. (2007). Information systems in police knowledge management . Electronic Government, Vol. 4(2), 191-203. 
• Harkin, Diarmaid, Chad Whelan and Lennon Chang (2018). The challenges facing specialist police cyber-crime units: an empirical analysis . Police Practice and Research, Vol. 19(6), 519-536. 
• Hauck, Roslin V. and Hsinchun Chen. (1999). COPLINK: A case of intelligent analysis and knowledge management . Proceedings of the International Conference of Information Systems, Charlotte, North Carolina. 
• Hinduja, Sameer. (2007).  Computer Crime Investigations in the United States: Leveraging Knowledge from the Past to Address the Future . International Journal of Cyber Criminology, Vol. 1(1), 1-26.
• Hunton, Paul. (2012). Managing the technical resource capability of cybercrime investigation: a UK law enforcement perspective . Public Money & Management, Vol. 32(3), 225-232.
• ICANN. (n.d.). About WHOIS. 
• Ingeniería de Sistemas para la Defensa de España. (n.d.). The Joint Cyber-Defence Command organized with the collaboration of Isdefe. The Cyber-Defence Conference 2016.
• INTERPOL. (n.d.). Our cyber operations. 
• INTERPOL. (n.d.). International organization partners. 
• Japan Cybercrime Control Center. (JC3). (2014). Establishment of "Japan Cybercrime Control Center", a New Organization for Fighting Cybercrime . 
• Kallender, Paul and Christopher W. Hughes. (2017). Japan's Emerging Trajectory as a 'Cyber Power': From Securitization to Militarization of Cyberspace . Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 40(1-2), 118-145. 
• Kremer, Jens. (2014). Policing cybercrime or militarizing cybersecurity? Security mindsets and the regulation of threats from cyberspace . Information & Communications Technology Law, Vol. 23(3), 220-237. 
• Leppänen, Anna and Kankaanranta, Terhi. (2017). Cybercrime investigation in Finland . Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention, Vol. 18(2), 157-175. 
• Lin, Herbert. (2017). Attribution of Malicious Cyber Incidents . Hoover Institution, Aegis Paper Series No. 1607.
• Maras, Marie-Helen. (2014). Computer Forensics: Cybercriminals, Laws and Evidence , second edition. Jones and Bartlett.
• Maras, Marie-Helen. (2014). Inside Darknet: The Takedown of Silk Road . Criminal Justice Matters, Vol. 98(1), 22-23.
• Maras, Marie-Helen. (2016). Cybercriminology . Oxford University Press.
• Mayeda, G. (2015). Privacy in the age of the internet: Lawful access provisions and access to ISP and OSP subscriber information . The Alberta Law Review 53(3), 709-746
• McGuire, Mike and Samantha Dowling. (2013). Chapter 4: Improving the cyber crime evidence base. Cyber crime: A review of the evidence. Research Report 75.
• Morgan, Anthony, Christopher Dowling, Rick Brown, Monique Mann, Isabella Voce, and Marc Smith. (2016). Evaluation of the Australian Cybercrime Online Reporting Network . Australian Institute of Criminology, Australian Government.
• National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance. (n.d.). About us. 
• National Cyber Security Centre (2018). Ghana' National Cybercrime Awareness Programme
• National Cyber Security Centre (2018). Ghana' National Cyber Security Awareness Week 2017 (NCSAW 2017) Report.
• National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies. (n.d.). NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework . 
• Nhan, Johnny, Laura Huey, and Ryan Broll. (2015). Digilantism: An Analysis of Crowdsourcing and the Boston Marathon Bombings . British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 57, 341-361.
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. (2016). NATO Recognises Cyberspace as a 'Domain of Operations' at Warsaw Summit . 
• PBS. (2018). The FBI's cybersecurity brain drain has long-term implications . 4 August 2018.
• Pihelgas, Mauno. (2013). Back-tracing and Anonymity in Cyberspace. In Katharina Ziolkowski (ed.). Peacetime Regime for State Activities in Cyberspace International Law, International Relations and Diplomacy (pp. 31-60). NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence.
• Shore, M., Du, Y., & Zeadally, S. (2011). A Public‐Private Partnership Model for National Cybersecurity . Policy & Internet, 3(2), 1-23.
• Smeets, Max. (2018).  Integrating offensive cyber capabilities: meaning dilemmas, and assessment . Defence Studies, Vol. 18(4), 395-410.
• Suciu, Peter. (2015). Cyber security's ever-growing brain drain. Fortune, 9 September 2015. 
• Tcherni, Maria, Andrew Davies, Giza Lopes, and Alan Lizotte. (2016). The Dark Figure of Online Property Crime: Is Cyberspace Hiding a Crime Wave? Justice Quarterly, Vol. 33(5), 890-911.
• Tropina, Tatiana. (2009). Cyber-policing: The role of the police in fighting cybercrime . European Police Science and Research Bulletin, Special Conference Issue No. 2.
• UNODC. (2013). Draft Comprehensive Study on Cybercrime .
• UNODC. (n.d.). SHERLOC.
• UNODC. (n.d.). Cybercrime Repository.
• United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate and United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism. (2018). The Protection Of Critical Infrastructures Against Terrorist Attacks: Compendium Of Good Practices.
• US National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (n.d.). Work Roles: Cyber Crime Investigator. 
• US Secret Service. (n.d.). Investigation.
• US Securities and Exchange Commission. (2018). Altaba, Formerly Known as Yahoo!, Charged With Failing to Disclose Massive Cybersecurity Breach; Agrees To Pay $35 Million. Press Release 2018-71.
• Wall, David S. (2007). Policing Cybercrimes: Situating the Public Police in Networks of Security within Cyberspace . Police Practice and Research, Vol. 8(2), 183-205.

 

Legislation

• United States of America. USA PATRIOT Act . 

 

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