Cybercrimes: A Proposed Taxonomy and Challenges

Harmandeep Singh Brar,Gulshan Kumar

doi:10.1155/2018/1798659

Abstract

Cybersecurity is one of the most important concepts of cyberworld which provides protection to the cyberspace from various types of cybercrimes. This paper provides an updated survey of cybersecurity. We conduct the survey of security of recent prominent researches and categorize the recent incidents in context to various fundamental principles of cybersecurity. We have proposed a new taxonomy of cybercrime which can cover all types of cyberattacks. We have analyzed various cyberattacks as per the updated cybercrime taxonomy to identify the challenges in the field of cybersecurity and highlight various research directions as future work in this field.

Highlights

In this modern age, the world is becoming more familiar and close to each other by means of Internet and new networking technologies. e networking infrastructure is the base for information sharing among individuals, private sectors, and military and government sectors
50% of the world population has an Internet connection up to January 2017. ere is a rise of 10% in the Internet users from January 2016 to January 2017 [1]
Some new types of security techniques are required to defend the cyber space from cybercrimes that can never be cracked or require years to crack down, which are cost-effective and can defend against all types of cybercrimes

Summary

Introduction

The world is becoming more familiar and close to each other by means of Internet and new networking technologies. e networking infrastructure is the base for information sharing among individuals, private sectors, and military and government sectors. Ere is a huge growth of Internet-connected devices from the past to the present which give rise to the area of the cyberspace. Is expansion has given rise to the various opportunities for cybercriminals to do malicious acts on the Internet and given rise to the difficulty level for security professionals to put a security umbrella on the entire cyberspace. E target of cyberattackers may be the banking system, big companies, organizations, rich individuals, or wealthy countries. Ese types of cybercriminals attack the networks to steal the confidential information of specific country, organization, or individual. Ey perform their activities of cyberattacks under the emotion of hate to take their revenge in the form of financial loss, tarnishing their social image, reputation, and so on.

Cybersecurity

Objective

Literature Survey

Findings

The Proposed Taxonomy of the Cybercrime