Dr David Maimon joins us to share some research and have a chat about research. We discus the impact of the pandemic on illicit markets, phishing, online fraud, identity theft and synthetic identities as well as the possibilities that technologies offers in terms of developing tools that provide new measurements and observations for scientific research on cybercrime. Dr. James is with us to answer one of my odd questions about digital forensics. He explains why the opposite of technologies ‘going dark’ obstructing criminal investigations is not ‘going light’ making investigations easy.
About Our Guests:
Dr. David Maimon
https://news.gsu.edu/expert/david-maimon/
Dr. Joshua James
Papers or resources mentioned in this article:
Maimon, D., Howell, C. J., Perkins, R. C., Muniz, C. N., & Berenblum, T. (2021). A Routine Activities Approach to Evidence-Based Risk Assessment: Findings From Two Simulated Phishing Attacks. Social Science Computer Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393211046339
Maimon, D., Howell, C. J., & Burruss, G. W. (2021). Restrictive deterrence and the scope of hackers’ reoffending: Findings from two randomized field trials. Computers in Human Behavior https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0747563221002661
Other:
Dr Maimon mentions sending a link with a EULA or End User License Agreement. A EULA is a contract between a software producer and the eventual user of the product, specifying the terms and conditions of use.
The music for this episode is called “G0n3 Ph1sh1ng”. I do like a good metaphor.
One thou is 25 micrometres. Metric is more precise. In practice, I use both. Such is the joy of Canada.
You might get 40 rods to the hog’s head and like it that way; I respect that.