Technical Measures for Prevention of Theft Committed with the Use of Information and Telecommunication Technologies

Abstract

Theft committed with the use of information and telecommunication technologies has taken a lead in cybercrimes and is a major concern of developing countries. Provision of effective prevention activity in the sphere under study poses a serious problem. Its solution depends on a systematic approach to resolving organizational and legal aspects of social prevention of this type of theft. The specificity of IT-theft (stealing and fraud) calls for correction of established methods of special prevention measures and building new approaches to such activity (technologisation of the process). The article allocates a set of major perspective technical measures for prevention of IT-theft aimed to develop and implement a single monitoring system (data mining and extraction of useful data from total data volumes); the fight against anonymity (the possibility of de-anonymization of users is considered). The study also highlights countering fraudulent spam (the possibility of using the technology of «gray lists», the introduction of a specialized tariff plan when using e-mail as well as the development of domestic software based on individual Bayesian filters capable of analyzing the statistics of the occurrence of words in the texts of fraudulent messages). The main directions of practical implementation of the proposed approaches are determined. In conclusion, the author emphasizes the fact that the application of these technical preventive measures will allow the entire cybercrime prevention system to be holistic and logically complete.