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Cybercrime and Espionage and the New Security 101

Information in this chapter

• He Who Does Not Prevent a Crime When He Can, Encourages It

• What’s Old Is New Again

• A Changing World

• Cybercriminal Statistics: U.S. and Abroad

• The Statistics of Cybercrime

• Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Qualifying Amateurs and Professionals

• Trends in 2011

• Myopic to the Catastrophic: Advanced Persistent Threats

• Points of Confluence: Events That Have Shaped the Future of Privatized Cybercrime and Espionage

• Agendas in Next Generation Cybercriminal Activity

• The Coming Decade

Introduction

The Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 B.C.–d. 43 B.C.) when speaking on the nature of criminality, once said that “The enemy is within the gates; ...

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