Internet forensics on the basis of evidence gathering with Peep attacks
Computer Standards & Interfaces
Advantages and vulnerabilities of pull-based email-delivery
AISC '10 Proceedings of the Eighth Australasian Conference on Information Security - Volume 105
Assessing the severity of phishing attacks: A hybrid data mining approach
Decision Support Systems
Digitized forensic investigation at p2p copyright controversy, infringement
ISI'06 Proceedings of the 4th IEEE international conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics
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This installment of Attack Trends looks at the growing convergence of technically savvy computer crackers with financially motivated criminals. Historically, most computer crime on the Internet has not been financially motivated: It was the result of either curious or malicious technical attackers, called crackers. This changed as the Internet became more commercialized, with more of the public going online. Financially motivated actors in the fauna of the Internet's seedy underbelly—spammers and fraudsters—soon joined crackers to exploit this new potential goldmine.