An International Perspective on Fighting Cybercrime

Cybercrime is becoming ever more serious. Findings from the 2002Computer Crime and Security Survey show an upward trend that demonstrates aneed for a timely review of existing approaches to fighting this new phenomenonin the information age. In this paper, we provide an overview of cybercrimeand present an international perspective on fighting cybercrime. We review currentstatus of fighting cybercrime in different countries, which rely on legal, organizational,and technological approaches, and recommend four directions forgovernments, lawmakers, intelligence and law enforcement agencies, and researchersto combat cybercrime.