B. Dupont, (2016), La gouvernance polycentrique du cybercrime: Les réseaux fragmentés de la coopération internationale, Cultures et Conflits, (102), 95-120. Abstract: One of the main features of digital crime is its transnational character, which seems to pose a major challenge to the harmonization and coordination of police resources, which are by definition local. However, an empirical analysis of the […] Read more

One of the main features of digital crime is its transnational character, which seems to pose a major challenge to the harmonization and coordination of police resources, which are by definition local. However, an empirical analysis of the international governance of cybercrime provides an alternative reading. This article uses a social network analysis (SNA) approach […] Read more

Advertising fraud, particularly click fraud, is a growing concern for the online advertising industry. The use of click bots, malware that automatically clicks on ads to generate fraudulent traffic, has steadily increased over the last years. While the security industry has focused on detecting and removing malicious binaries associated with click bots, a better understanding […] Read more

This content is not available in the selected language. Pruneau, C. (2014). Les réseaux des groupes français d’extrême droite sur Facebook. Note de recherche no. 22. Résumé: Depuis quelques années, la France constate une recrudescence des actes liés à l’extrême droite. Les services de police français recueillent de plus en plus de plaintes pour des propos racistes et […] Read more

This content is not available in the selected language. Résumé: Depuis quelques années, la France constate une recrudescence des actes liés à l’extrême droite. Les services de police français recueillent de plus en plus de plaintes pour des propos racistes et mêmes des dégradations volontaires de lieux publics à caractère racial. Ce constat n’est pas unique […] Read more

This content is not available in the selected language. On parle beaucoup ces jours-ci de ICWatch, une base de données contenant 27 000 profils d’individus appartenant ou travaillant en étroite collaboration avec la communauté américaine du renseignement. Ces profils ont été automatiquement recueillis sur LinkedIn, le réseau social professionnel, à l’aide de mots clés dont la […] Read more

This content is not available in the selected language. Le site Defense One publie aujourd’hui un article assez bien documenté sur l’utilisation que font les agences de renseignement américaines des plateformes de médias sociaux telles que Facebook et Twitterafin d’analyser les dynamiques sociales dans certaines régions instables du monde ou de localiser des individus d’intérêt et […] Read more

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Stories of the exploits of computer hackers who have broken into supposedly secure government and corporate information systems appear almost daily on the front pages of newspapers and technology websites, yet we know very little about the individuals behind these headlines. Most media accounts and academic studies on hackers suffer from a number of biases […] Read more

This content is not available in the selected language. 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 […] Read more