--- New Challenges for Cybersecurity and Possible Criminal Law
Author(s): DOBRINOIU, Maxim
Author(s) keywords: advanced and persistent threat, clickjacking, cybercrime, ransomware, reconnais-sance attack, rogueware, TDoS, watering hole attack
Reference keywords: cyber-attacks, cybercrime, information security
Abstract:
This material describes some of the most significant new threats to Cybersecurity, with the view to better understand the diverse modus operandi undertaken by hackers and other online perpetrators in performance of their attacks, and to offer certain legal solutions to further be analyzed and perhaps adopted by the law enforcement agencies, prosecutors or courts of justice.
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Article Title: New Challenges for Cybersecurity and Possible Criminal Law
Author(s): DOBRINOIU, Maxim
Date of Publication: 2015-06-29
Publication: International Journal of Information Security and Cybercrime
ISSN: 2285-9225 e-ISSN: 2286-0096
Digital Object Identifier: 10.19107/IJISC.2015.01.02
Issue: Volume 4, Issue 1, Year 2015
Section: Advances in Information Security Research
Page Range: 15-21 (7 pages)
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