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Cyber Power
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Cyber Power

by Solange Ghernaouti-Helie
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
220 pages
15h 17m
English
EPFL Press
Content preview from Cyber Power
Chapter 1
Cybercrime and Cybersecurity Issues:
Stakes and Challenges for
the 21st Century
1.1 Understanding the context
The facts
Citizens into have been robbed, children in danger, ruined corporations, threat-
ened states – cybercriminals are spreading their inuence as fast as the Inter-
net is developing. Since we do not see or know them, we inadvertantly trust
cybercriminals, thus giving them their strength. No one is immune. Whether
via the manipulation of opinion, spying, identity theft, terrorism, harassment,
swindles, nancial fraud or various types of crimes, cybercrime touches all of
society. By simply using services offered by the Internet, users are vulnerable
to criminal threat and can become a victim or an unwilling author of a crime. ...
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ISBN: 9781466573048