Questions for CCRC Director Asked and Answered
Date: November 25, 2003Source: Computer Crime Research Center
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In our activity we highlight training of students and experts on questions of the prevention and investigation of offences in sphere of the intellectual property and high technologies. We have prepared a special course "methods of computer crimes investigation" which I lecture in Law Faculties in two Zaporozhye universities. You will find a unique textbook for cyber police "Problems of Fighting Computer Crimes" which has been issued in 2002 in library of our Center. It is recommended by the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Ukraine as the manual for students of higher educational institutions (http://www.crime-research.ru/books.html and http://www.crime-research.ru/library/book13.html).
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Dr. Golubev: In the view of psychological portrait, cyber criminal as a rule, is a creative person, professional, capable to face technical challenge and risk. Hackers-amateurs are the most numerous, and the least dangerous. 80% of all computer attacks fall to their share. This category is interested not in certain purpose, and process of attack, they feel pleasure from overcoming systems of protection. More often their actions are prevented easily as hackers-amateurs prefer not to risk and break the law.
Questioning carried out by our Center (http://www.crime-research.ru/library/Golubev0104.html ) has shown that the age of computer offenders varies in range from 14 till 45 years.
The age of 33% of swindlers at the moment of committing a crime did not exceed 20 years, 54% of them were from 20 to 40 years, 13% - older than 40 years old. That is to say, research disproves the existing opinion that hackers are mainly 13-20 years old. The number of computer crimes committed by men is 5 times greater. 53,7% of swindlers have higher or incomplete higher technical education, and 19,2% of them have other higher or incomplete higher education. Lately, the number of women engaged in these crimes is increasing.
The most dangerous group is made up by professional computer criminals with evident mercenary purpose. 79% of all crimes fall to their share, these crimes are related to frauds with bank accounts. It is possible to characterize this group as highly skilled experts. They know perfectly details of information technologies, but also have several programming languages at their disposal, they are really good in breaking protection systems and they do not leave any traces generally. This category of cyber criminals is the most dangerous.
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