In the wake of a series of destabilizing and damaging cyber attacks ranging from Equifax to Yahoo!, there has been a growing call for the U.S. government to establish an analogue of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to investigate cyber attacks. Even the esteemed Center for...

Cybersecurity is an increasingly interdisciplinary field in which a range of perspectives including not only computer science but also the social sciences and the humanities, such as music, have an invaluable role to play in helping to train effective twenty-first century cybersecurity...

Having access to the internet is increasingly considered to be an emerging human right. International organizations and national governments have begun to formally recognize its importance to freedom of speech, expression, and information exchange. The next step to help ensure some measure of...

It is assumed that the benefits of building national cyber security capacity are widespread, largely based on common sense, limited case studies, anecdotal evidence, and expert opinion. This paper reports on the early phase of a systematic effort to bring together cross-national data from...

On September 22, 2016 Yahoo! Inc. announced that a data breach and theft of information from over 500 million user accounts had taken place during 2014 (the largest data breach ever at the time), likely including names, birthdays, telephone numbers, email addresses, hashed passwords, and, in...

In this world of 'big data', having the right data available at the right time is crucial; and it is an imperative that has moved far beyond the remit of IT alone. The dreamt IT3G (Information Technology Generated Global Governance) village is facing some of the challenge in the IT enabled...

Cyber risks are as pervasive as the technology that facilitates their execution. The threat of cyber attacks or plots to deploy cyber weapons against critical government entities, private businesses and domestic and international infrastructure resources creates a most significant risk...

In the early days of the Internet, many predicted that the Internet would be an engine of disintermediation, radically altering the economics of business and commerce. The notion was that the Internet would directly connect producers to consumers, removing any intermediary whose sole value was...

On 17th November 2010, the international telecommunications union (ITU) launched a new Child Online Protection (COP) phase. This new phase aimed to encourage the development of national COP centers, awareness campaigns and community forums to create a safe environment for young users of the...

Web application attacks are an increasingly important area in information security and digital forensics. It has been observed that attackers are developing the capability to bypass security controls and launch a large number of sophisticated attacks. Several attempts have been made to address...