We are joined by Dr Maria Grazia Porcedda who is Assistant Professor of IT Law a Trinity college Dublin to talk about the role of data in cybercrime offences and the cascading harms that result from data breaches. Cyber dependent crimes can result in cyber enabled crimes by both direct and indirect links between offenders. There is a cascade effect that can see secondary and tertiary victimizations flowing on from an initial crime event. Dr. James joins us again to answer one of my odd questions about digital forensics. He explains two types meta-data, what we should be concerned about and how it can be used by digital investigators.
About our Guests
Dr Maria Grazia Porcedda
https://www.tcd.ie/research/profiles/?profile=mariagrp
Dr. Joshua James
Papers or resources mentioned in this article:
Porcedda, M. G., & Wall, D. S. (2021, September). Modelling the Cybercrime Cascade Effect in Data Crime. In 2021 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW) (pp. 161-177). IEEE.
The Cambridge Computer Crime Database (Maintained by Alice Hutchings )
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ah793/cccd.html
The Computer Evidence Database of Computer Misuse Act cases (Maintained by Michael Turner)
https://www.computerevidence.co.uk/Cases/CMA.htm
Other:
During the outro I managed to say "Mater data" instead of "Meta data". I don't think that mater data exists as a term but perhaps we will need it or something like it to describe the data that gave birth to other data. If we keep having to chase data back to its point of origin and it is being transformed and transferred by automatic processes we might well one day have deliberate conversations about mater data. That hasn't happened yet and in this case it was just another of my many mangled mispronunciations.