Cybercrime
Contents
From our blog
Generative AI models – a fun game that can easily get out of hand?
22 December 2022
AI diplomacy, Artificial Intelligence, Cybercrime, Ethics, Intellectual property rights
All your friends have replaced their social media profile pictures with AI-generated avatars, but you do not know where they got them from? Or are you wondering what exactly people are talking ab...
Cyberattacked: Who do you call?
09 October 2022
Consumer protection, Critical infrastructure, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Digital business models, Network security
Almost noone! Or, more accurately, there is no single emergency telephone numbe...
Cyber-Panopticism: A perilous techno-political issue
29 April 2022
The global cyber security environment is confronted with a variety of problems, such as network information inundation, information pollution, information infringement, information monopoly and the cybersecurity cri...
Cybercrime: Recognising and preventing malicious activities online
16 March 2022
With the advent of digital banking and digital technologies, new pathways to criminal and illicit activities have opened up. This post discusses cybercrime, and analyses its impact and potential prevention measures th...
Training and courses
Events
Diplo at the ‘Cyber security and cybercrime policies for African diplomats’ workshop
12 Apr 18 - 13 Apr 18
Ethiopia, Africa
Introduction to Digital Politics 2015: online course for Geneva-based diplomats
27 Apr 15 - 22 Jun 15
Online
Panel on Fraud and other abuse of Emblems (Red Cross/Red Crescent) on the Internet
30 Nov 11 -
Switzerland
Resources
2013
DDoS – Available Weapon of Mass Disruption
The increasing militarisation of cyber-space comes in response to fears of critical damage caused by digital weapons like Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS). Understanding that the botnets are the key platform behind DDoS, we compared the costs of running a large-sca... Read more...