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Organised Crime and Social Media: Detecting and Corroborating Weak Signals of Human Trafficking Online (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andrews, S., Brewster, B., & Day, T. (2016). Organised Crime and Social Media: Detecting and Corroborating Weak Signals of Human Trafficking Online. In Graph-Based Representation and Reasoning: 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2016, Annecy, France, July 5-7, 2016, Proceedings (137-150). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40985-6_11

This paper describes an approach for detecting the presence or emergence of Organised Crime (OC) signals on Social Media. It shows how words and phrases, used by members of the public in Social Media, can be treated as weak signals of OC, enabling in... Read More about Organised Crime and Social Media: Detecting and Corroborating Weak Signals of Human Trafficking Online.

Consolidated Taxonomy and Research Roadmap for Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism (2016)
Book Chapter
Akhgar, B., Choraś, M., Brewster, B., Bosco, F., Vermeersch, E., Luda, V., …Wells, D. (2016). Consolidated Taxonomy and Research Roadmap for Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism. In B. Akhgar, & B. Brewster (Eds.), Combatting Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism: Challenges, Trends and Priorities (295-321). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38930-1_16

In this concluding chapter, we consolidate the broad spectrum of challenges discussed throughout this book towards the formulation of a number key priority topics to be addressed by future research related to cybercrime and cyberterrorism. During thi... Read More about Consolidated Taxonomy and Research Roadmap for Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism.

Challenges Priorities and Policies: Mapping the Research Requirements of Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism Stakeholders (2016)
Book Chapter
Akhgar, B., Wells, D., & Brewster, B. (2016). Challenges Priorities and Policies: Mapping the Research Requirements of Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism Stakeholders. In Combatting Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism: Challenges, Trends and Priorities (39-51). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38930-1_3

The following chapter provides an in depth look at a broad selection challenges related to Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism, as identified through prolonged engagement with a multitude of horizontal and vertical cyber-security stakeholders. Out of six c... Read More about Challenges Priorities and Policies: Mapping the Research Requirements of Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism Stakeholders.

Cybercrime: Attack Motivations and Implications for Big Data and National Security (2015)
Book Chapter
Brewster, B., Kemp, B., Galehbakhtiari, S., & Akhgar, B. (2015). Cybercrime: Attack Motivations and Implications for Big Data and National Security. In Application of Big Data for National Security: A Practitioner's Guide to Emerging Technologies (108-127). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-801967-2.00008-2

Organizations are increasingly turning to the immeasurable quantities of data available through open-source mediums such as the web and social media to enhance their analytical capability and ultimately improve the quality and quantity of the informa... Read More about Cybercrime: Attack Motivations and Implications for Big Data and National Security.

Crawling Open-Source Data for Indicators of Human Trafficking (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brewster, B., Ingle, T., & Rankin, G. (2014). Crawling Open-Source Data for Indicators of Human Trafficking. In 2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. https://doi.org/10.1109/ucc.2014.116

Information available from open-source mediums such as the web and social media are increasingly being used to aid the response to emergent crimes and reinforce existing Law Enforcement Agency intelligence capability. In this paper we discuss the rat... Read More about Crawling Open-Source Data for Indicators of Human Trafficking.

Social media and its role for LEAs: Review and applications (2014)
Book Chapter
Bayerl, P. S., Akhgar, B., Brewster, B., Domdouzis, K., & Gibson, H. (2014). Social media and its role for LEAs: Review and applications. In B. Akhgar, A. Staniforth, & F. Bosco (Eds.), Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism Investigator's Handbook (197-220). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-800743-3.00016-5

Social media has become a major aspect of online activity, and thus an essential part of cybercrime and cyber terrorism-related operations. As LEA’s (law enforcement agencies) focus upon cybercrime and cyber terrorism threats increase, so does the re... Read More about Social media and its role for LEAs: Review and applications.

Environmental Scanning and Knowledge Representation for the Detection of Organised Crime Threats (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brewster, B., Andrews, S., Polovina, S., Hirsch, L., & Akhgar, B. (2023). Environmental Scanning and Knowledge Representation for the Detection of Organised Crime Threats. In N. Hernandez, R. Jäschke, & M. Croitoru (Eds.), Graph-Based Representation and Reasoning: 21st International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2014, Iaşi, Romania, July 27-30, 2014, Proceedings (275-280). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08389-6_22

ePOOLICE aims at developing an efficient and effective strategic early warning system that utilises environmental scanning for the early warning and detection of current, emergent and future organised crime threats. Central to this concept is the use... Read More about Environmental Scanning and Knowledge Representation for the Detection of Organised Crime Threats.

A Framework for the Investigation and Modeling of Online Radicalization and the Identification of Radicalized Individuals (2013)
Book Chapter
Staniforth, A., Bayerl, P. S., Akhgar, B., Brewster, B., & Johnson, K. (2014). A Framework for the Investigation and Modeling of Online Radicalization and the Identification of Radicalized Individuals. In Emerging Trends in ICT Security (539-547). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-411474-6.00033-5

In this chapter we present an empirically-based theory-independent framework of online radicalization. The framework provides a systematic basis for (a) the representation of causal mechanisms of online radicalization and (b) the identification of ra... Read More about A Framework for the Investigation and Modeling of Online Radicalization and the Identification of Radicalized Individuals.

A Conceptual Framework for Information Security Awareness, Assessment, and Training (2013)
Book Chapter
Hassanzadeh, M., Jahangiri, N., & Brewster, B. (2014). A Conceptual Framework for Information Security Awareness, Assessment, and Training. In H. R. Arabnia, & B. Akhgar (Eds.), Emerging Trends in ICT Security (99-110). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-411474-6.00006-2

Information security has become a key issue. Human resources, including all people working with information technology, play a significant role in information security issues. The key factor for human resources in relation to information security is... Read More about A Conceptual Framework for Information Security Awareness, Assessment, and Training.