The social network of hackers

Social researchers are facing more and more challenges as criminal networks are expanding in size and moving to the Internet. Many efforts are currently under way to enhance the technical capabilities of researchers working in the field of cybercrimes. Rather than focusing on the technical tools tha...

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Veröffentlicht in:Global crime Jg. 13; H. 3; S. 160 - 175
Hauptverfasser: Décary-Hétu, David, Dupont, Benoit
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Abingdon Taylor & Francis 01.08.2012
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Schlagworte:
Arrest
Arrests
botnet
Case studies
Communication networks
Constraining
Crime
Criminology
Cybercrime
Effectiveness studies
Focusing
Hackers
Hacking
Information
Internet
Monitors
Networks
organised crime
Researcher Subject Relations
Researchers
Segmentation
Social media
Social network analysis
Social Networks
Strikes
Technical efficiency
Values
ISSN:1744-0572, 1744-0580
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Zusammenfassung:Social researchers are facing more and more challenges as criminal networks are expanding in size and moving to the Internet. Many efforts are currently under way to enhance the technical capabilities of researchers working in the field of cybercrimes. Rather than focusing on the technical tools that could enhance research performance, this article focuses on a specific field that has demonstrated its use in the study of criminal networks: social network analysis (SNA). This article evaluates the effectiveness of SNA to enhance the value of information on cybercriminals. This includes both the identification of possible targets for follow-up research as well as the removal of subjects who may be wasting the researchers' time. This article shows that SNA can be useful on two levels. First, SNA provides scientific and objective measures of the structure of networks as well as the position of their key players. Second, fragmentation metrics, which measure the impact of the removal of n nodes in a network, help to determine the amount of resources needed to deal with specific organisations. In this case study, a tactical strike against the network could have had the same destabilising impact as a broader approach. The resources saved by limiting the investigation targets could then be used to monitor the criminal network's reaction to the arrests and to limit its ability to adapt to the post-arrest environment.
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ISSN:1744-0572
1744-0580
DOI:10.1080/17440572.2012.702523