Understanding cybercrime and developing a monitoring device

Abstract

Although cybercrime has been found long before the modern computer and network were invented, the common understanding of cybercrime is “Crime relates to computer or network”. To control or solve a crime, first we need to understand what feature it has, what motive is an attacker possessed of, and what difficulties we are facing.

Four of the features will be introduced. Then these features will be compared with conventional crime. To better understand cybercrimial, we will need to understand what motive drives them to conduct crime. After introducing the features and motive, three cases will be presented. Current problem with cybercrime is that cybercriminals target people with little computer knowledge. Besides that, a lot of evidences were erased by intruder which makes computer forensic difficult to proceed. Although large company may have different method ensure the safety of data log, there is no software for standard user. user. This thesis presents a software to potentially solve the current problem of data log. Other suggestions from different angles will also be made.

In conclusion, more effort need to be made regarding cyber security. Countless effort and investment have been made, yet statistics have proven that it doesn`t work as well as we expected and it proves an need for the proposal in this thesis.