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Opinion: I spent three years in a paedophile hunting team – here’s what I learned

12 May 2022

Professor Mark de Rond from Cambridge Judge Business School discusses his three years embedded with one of the UK's most prolific paedophile hunting...

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Honour among thieves: the study of a cybercrime marketplace in action

06 Nov 2020

Researchers at the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre have revealed what they’ve learned from analysing hundreds of thousands of illicit trades that took...

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Lockdown 'helps fuel rise in cybercrime'

03 Jun 2020

Take extra care before buying face masks or testing kits online, or responding to texts apparently sent to you by the UK Government or the NHS...

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Prevention better than cure at keeping young users from getting involved in cybercrime

21 Oct 2019

Highly-targeted messaging campaigns from law enforcement can be surprisingly effective at dissuading young gamers from getting involved in cybercrime...

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Cambridge to host transatlantic cyber security competition

20 Jul 2017

A major cyber security challenge, aimed at educating and inspiring the next generation of cyber defenders from across the UK and US, will be held at...

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Combating cybercrime when there's plenty of phish in the sea

21 Oct 2016

As more and more crime moves online, computer scientists, criminologists and legal academics have joined forces in Cambridge to improve our...

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UK’s top student hackers compete for cyber security

22 Apr 2016

Students from the UK’s top cyber security universities will compete in Cambridge this weekend, in part to address the country’s looming cyber...

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Opinion: FBI backs off from its day in court with Apple this time – but there will be others

30 Mar 2016

Martin Kleppmann (Computer Laboratory) discusses how vulnerable security technologies really are, and how these vulnerabilities could be exploited by...

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Cambridge named Academic Centre of Excellence in Cybersecurity Research

13 Jun 2013

Cambridge formally recognised as centre of excellence for cybsersecurity research.

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How much does cybercrime cost?

18 Jun 2012

The first systematic study of the cost of cybercrime recommends that society should spend less on antivirus software and more on policing the...

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