Fraud And Cybercrime

Cybercrime is now commonplace and presents new challenges in the prevention and detection of crime. Drawing on a broad introduction to the history, functions, and technologies of the Internet this course addresses issues of prevention and regulation and also describes the evolution of criminal activities involving computers.

Illustrative topics will include hacker myths and realities, computer forensics, ID Theft, spam, malware, phishing, fraud, crimeware tool kits, protecting personal privacy, passwords and crime groups in cyberspace.

Students will gain an understanding of common forms of cybercriminal activity and the technological and 'social engineering' methods used to undertake such crimes.

• Cybercrime in brief
• Cybercrime trends
• Cybercrime prevention
• What cyber security/information security is
• The threat landscape
• Legal, regulatory and contractual obligations
• Threat intelligence
• Malware
• Humans and social engineering
• Phishing
• Web application security
• Social media security
• Remote working – covering travel and home working
• An introduction to risk management
• Security standards and frameworks
• Security in the Cloud (ISO 27018)
• Incident response
• Business continuity