This article examines the network structure, criminal cooperation, and external interactions of cybercriminal networks. Its contribution is empirical and inductive. The core of this study involved carrying out 10 case analyses on closed cybercrime investigations – all with financial motivations on the …

Industrial control systems are essential for the functioning of our society since they control our electricity, water, agriculture, health, communication, transportation, emergency service and financial service. In the digital age of big data and data analytics these so-called critical infrastructures …

The Internet of Things is changing our society. The increasing amount of “smart devices” that are being connected to the Internet is attracting everyone’s attention. However, for the sake of the usability, IoT devices frequently have poor security. With the rapid development of the IoT, comes the need …

The aim of this dissertation was to research how awareness concerning the threats of phishing among Dutch SMEs can be raised in order to improve their online security in the future. The following research question was formulated: ‘‘In what way can awareness concerning the threats of phishing amongst …

1e alinea column: De kwetsbaarheid van onze IT-infrastructuur en informatiesystemen is de afgelopen jaren uitgegroeid tot een levensgroot issue. Van het Diginotar-debacle tot het lekken van medische gegevens van honderdduizenden Nederlanders, keer op keer wordt duidelijk dat de beveiliging van gevoelige …

The authors make an attempt to economize the 'feeling of being secure' in times of cyber threats. They distinguish the direct costs of cyber attacks, the indirect costs that follow from the responses to deter (possible) attacks and the indirect expenditures resulting from the rules and regulations that …

By critically analysing the initial worries concerning public reactions and the actual responses to attacks by new military technologies (strategic bombing during World War II), to natural disasters (Hurricane Katrina), to the 2003 Blackouts (in the US), and to terrorist attacks (9/11), the author concludes …

Paper that discusses both military and civil aspects of Information Assurance. It provides the reader with an overview of the clear and present threats from cyberspace on the Armed Forces and society as a whole. A cyber attack taxonomy ordered both by hacking method and reason of attack is presented. …