Cybercrime

Catalog description

This course explores the history and evolution of Cybercrime. Furthermore, this course examines the challenges faced by society at protecting oneself from a faceless digital threat, while simultaneously introducing the steps for detecting, collecting, and analyzing digital evidence for criminal investigation. Students will be to the growing, and continually changing, legal, technical, and social issues faced by society and law enforcement in addressing Cybercrime. Students will examine current events and prominent cyber-attacks, to understand the delicate balance between maintaining personal privacy and providing global security. Students will explore the criminological challenges in combating a crime that can be invisible, may have no discernible victims (or offenders), and does not adhere to international boundaries. Finally, students will learn about the latest digital forensics methods being used by investigators to identify, preserve, and extract electronic evidence.