This talk presents a number of relatively small pieces of research into cybercrime – not all of which has yet made it into published academic papers. For most of the badness I will be showing you live websites and explaining how and why they exist – and what we currently know about the criminals that operate them. Much of the underlying data can be made available from the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre should you wish to extend this research yourself.
Richard Clayton is the Director of the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre, based in the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. He is a software developer by trade, his software house produced operating systems and word processors used by millions in the 1980s. In 2000 Richard returned to Cambridge to study for a PhD and he has stayed on as an academic because « it is more fun than working ». He spends much of his time studying e-crime – and regularly comes to Luxembourg to talk about novel topics in this research area.
The SRM seminars are the joint seminars of the Security and Trust of Software Systems and Applied Security and Information Assurance research groups, supported by the Laboratory of Algorithmics, Cryptology and Security and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust.