Cybercrime attribution: An eastern european case study

Proceedings of the 7th Australian Digital Forensics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 41-51

  McCombie, Stephen ^a   Pieprzyk, Josef ^a   Watters, Paul ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cybercrime; Eastern European organised crime; Phishing

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CORRUPTION PERCEPTION INDICES; CYBERCRIME; EASTERN EUROPE; ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY; GARTNER; LARGE PARTS; ORGANISED CRIME; PHISHING; PHISHING ATTACKS; SPAMMERS; TERTIARY EDUCATION; UKRAINE;

CRIME; ELECTRONIC CRIME COUNTERMEASURES; SURVEYS;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 78649883253     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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