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Georgia State University
Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group
CrimRxiv Consortium, Founding Member
The Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group (EBCS) is a multi-college initiative at Georgia State University. The EBCS is based in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, in partnership with the J. Mack Robinson School of Business and College of Arts & Sciences. The EBCS helps government, nonprofit and for-profit institutions to identify and mitigate threats—existing and emerging; apparent and lurking. The EBCS focuses on “cyber-dependent” crimes: illegal activities which require using a computer, computer networks, or other forms of information communication technology. The EBCS uses science, law, and engineering to assess, adapt, and invent digital technologies to mitigate cyber-dependent crimes. They do so with exploratory and experimental research designs; qualitative and quantitative data; on the technical and “human elements”; to assess problems and strengthen solutions. This often involves nudging cybercriminals to reveal themselves on attacked systems and networks, while equipping legitimate users with effective methods of investigation and defense. Follow them on Twitter @GSU_EBCS and on LinkedIn.
Published: Aug 03, 2024
CRJU 3405, Georgia State University | Last updated for Fall 2024
Published: Sep 27, 2023
With the advent of the internet, romance fraud – or instances wherein individuals use fake identities and sham romantic relationships to defraud others – has moved online. Victims of this crime experience harms to their financial, social, and personal well-being. While ...
Published: Aug 29, 2023
We examine a new form of online fraud closely related to traditional online romance fraud and catfishing, but which is “industrialized” through enterprise business practices, software platforms, and customer service processes. We conducted an inductive analysis of publicly ...
Published: Aug 03, 2023
Although the typical end goal of an online grooming event is to lure a minor into performing sexual activity (either online or offline), no previous study has examined the relevance of targets’ sexual knowledge on the progression of these events. To address this gap, we ...
Published: Jun 30, 2022
Currently, little is known about the scale and scope of online stolen data markets, including how these markets operate and the actors involved in these operations. As governments, businesses, and consumers increasingly move to the internet to manage their finances and ...
Published: Jan 29, 2022
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) is a non-punitive method for reducing crime through the design of the built environment. The relevance of CPTED strategies however is less clear in the context of computing environments. Building upon prior research ...
Published: Jan 05, 2022
In the face of market uncertainty, illicit actors on the darkweb mitigate risk by displacing their operations across digital marketplaces. In this study, we reconstruct market networks created by vendor displacement to examine how digital marketplaces are connected on the ...
Published: Aug 05, 2021
Cybersecurity appears to be the ultimate paradox: while cybersecurity budgets are increased every year, and a vast array of new security products and services appear in the market, cyber attacks have been increasing in scale and scope every year. 2020 will perhaps be ...
Published: Feb 01, 2021
Many online chat applications live in a grey area between the legitimate web and the dark net. The Telegram network in particular can aid criminal activities. Telegram hosts “chats” which consist of varied conversations and advertisements. These chats take place among ...
Published: Nov 05, 2020
Victims of romance fraud experience both a financial and emotional burden. Although multiple studies have offered insight into the correlates of perpetration and victimization, no known study has examined if, and how, romance fraud can be curtailed. The current study uses a ...
Published: Oct 20, 2020
Accessing public Wi-Fi networks can be as dangerous as it is convenient. People who access a public Wi-Fi network should engage in self-protective behaviors to keep their data safe from malicious actors on the same network as well as persons looking over their shoulder, ...
Published: Apr 23, 2020
TLS certificates fulfill two critical security functions. First, the certificate plays a key role in authenticating and verifying the identity of a host, client or application. Second, it enables the encryption of data exchanged between a client and a ser ver. To support the ...
Published: Mar 31, 2020
The popularity of the deterrence perspective across multiple scientific disciplines has sparked a lively debate regarding its relevance in influencing both offenders and targets in cyberspace. Unfortunately, due to the invisible borders between academic disciplines, most of ...
Published: Mar 20, 2020
As the demand for cheaper electronic devices has increased, the location of manufacturing foundries has changed, sometimes to untrusted places in foreign countries. Some of these locations have limited oversight of the manufacturing of complicated and sensitive electronic ...
Published: Mar 20, 2020
The IEEE 802.15.4 standard has attracted timecritical applications in wireless sensor networks because of its beacon-enabled mode and guaranteed timeslots (GTSs). However, the GTS management scheme’s security mechanisms still leave the 802.15.4 medium access control ...
Published: Nov 12, 2019
As organizations focus on the digital transformation of their businesses, the importance of encryption as the cornerstone of security and privacy is increasingly vital. In 2018, over 70 percent of internet traffic was encrypted. Experts believe that this figure is expected to ...
