Hi-Tech Crime CRIM30375

Tweets and cybersex: workplace web use is a minefield Some are working but some have other business. Michiel2005 , CC BY Mark Griffiths , Nottingham Trent University Market research reports have indicated that many office employees in the UK spend at least one hour of their day at work on non-work activities. They are booking holidays, shopping online, posting messages on social networking sites and playing online games. This, we are told, costs businesses millions of pounds a year. These findings highlight that internet abuse is a serious cause for concern, particularly to employers. A few years ago I developed a brief typology of internet abusers. This included criminal internet abuse. While some non-work-related internet activity is relatively harmless, others can cause real problems for employee, employer and colleagues. Internet activity abuse This involves the use of the internet during work hours in which other non-work r...

Cutting cybercrime is a question of smart design Websites and social networking sites must be designed to be defensible. Z33 art centre, Hasselt Nigel Phair , University of Canberra Is it possible to “design out” online crime? It’s definitely worth a try. Back in 1989, the Australian Institute of Criminology released a report containing advice for home-owners and builders to manipulate the design and surrounds of their dwellings. By doing so, they were told they could minimise their chances of becoming a victim of crime, particularly property crime. Efforts were made to improve lighting, to cut hedges and to avoid creating places where criminals could hide when break-and-entering a house. These are examples of the Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design ( CPTED ) concept in action. But as more and more citizens spend their time online, it’s worth taking the CPTED concept into the internet environment to “target-harden” users ...