The Human Factor in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

This panel will focus on communities of cybercrime offenders as well as individual offenders, after which there will be an active discussion with the audience about the future of research on the human factor in cybercrime and cybersecurity. Two presenters will discuss research on online communities and services for cybercrime offenders focusing on the effect of distrust in online communities of elite hackers and malware developers and the quality, capacity and reliability of cybercrime-as-a-service. Afterwards one presenter will discuss individual offenders and their characteristics and risk factors and compare these to traditional crime. The last presenter in this session will briefly discuss the research agenda ‘The Human Factor in cybercrime and cybersecurity’, which includes a state-of-the-art on research about the human factor in cybercrime, the most important research questions that should be addressed in the future and innovative research methods and datasets. This will be a very short presentation, after which there will be ample time to discuss the future of research on the human factor in cybercrime and cybersecurity with the audience.

Sub Unit

• Area V. Types of Offending / 19. Technology and Crime (identity theft, cyber crime)

Individual Presentations

• Distrust and Dispute Resolution Among Elite Hackers - Benoît Dupont, Université de Montréal

• Assessing the capacities of DDoS-For-Hire Services in Cybercrime Markets - Tom Hyslip, Norwich University; Tom Holt, Michigan State University

• Cybercrime vs. Traditional Crime: an Empirical Comparison of Offenders - Marleen Weulen Kranenbarg, NSCR (Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement)

• Towards a Research Agenda ‘The Human Factor in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity’ - Rutger Leukfeldt, NSCR (NL) & University of Wolverhampton (UK)

Chair

• Marleen Weulen Kranenbarg, NSCR (Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement)