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How to investigate a cybercrime scene?

By Milica D. Djekic

The crime may appear anywhere – even in a cyberspace. It’s simply a social phenomenon
which would include people to deal in an inappropriate manner. So, as it’s well-known – the
cyberspace got a place of the big folk’s concentration. It’s so logical that such a spot could get
potentially threatening to someone’s safety and security.

Basically, that’s the fact! Through this article, we would try to discuss how cyberspace could
become our new cybercrime scene as well as attempt to provide some insights how such a
case could get investigated.

Step 1: The motives

Many people would believe that sitting at home in
front of their computers with the internet
connection would make them feel secure.
Unluckily, that’s not the fact.

The cyberspace is a place of many troubles and
headaches. As we said, even sitting at home and
surfing your favorite web pages cannot protect
you from a crime.

Although it’s about the cyber environment, we
would call that crime a cybercrime. So easily, the bad guys could steal your confidential data,
discover your work’s IP address or get money from your bank’s account.

Once someone has decided to hack you, there is a huge chance that you would become the
next target. It’s only a matter of time and effort how long it would take before you suffer your first
breach.

The question here would be what drives those folks to attack someone’s computer or the entire
network. There is a vast variety of reasons and we would try to analyze some of them. First,
many hackers would get led with the desire to do something spectacular, so they would join that
business for their adventurism.

Also, we should get aware that some hacker’s would be politically, religiously or ideologically
motivated and some of them – even state-sponsored. Being government-sponsored means that

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