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Introduction

Cybercrime is a criminal responsibility of someone affecting security, privacy and the other interests in
virtual spot. The consequences of the high-tech criminality can be far reaching and potentially dangerous
to national and global population. Hacker’s operations are normally launched from some IT equipment
and they can threaten many. The hacker’s organizations which goal is to assault national needs deal with
threat to critical infrastructure as impacts to such an asset can be catastrophic. In other words, that’s a
direct interfering with country’s safety and security using advantages of new technologies. The ongoing
best practice in criminology can tackle such a case, but there is yet need to take into consideration
passive methods of defense as prevention is for a reason in such a case it is possible to save as many
as it is feasible. Cyber defense is from strategic importance to any nation and state as it can mitigate risk
and protect community from potential drawbacks. The major motive for hacking is a profit and those law
breakers do not hesitate to attack anything being from vital significance. The ultimate imperative of recent
strategies was safety as something being convenient to many, but today it’s clear it’s needed to go a step
higher in order to protect lives, businesses and infrastructure from arising threats. [1, 5] The best practice
in policing is strongly attached to dependability of offenders on information-communication grid as anyone
spending time there leaves footage and throughout detail analysis it is possible to locate any threat relying
on cyber systems. Many brilliant ideas in security have demonstrated some weaknesses, because there
is still risk from human factor being a part of the system. Service demands a lot, but there is a great
appeal for better background investigation and timely confirmations of officers as they can become insider
threats which intentionally or unintentionally do a leakage of the confidential findings. Combating such a
challenge is uneasy and takes a lot of knowledge and experience as even the system members can be
corrupted working against the interests of their society and encouraging concerning behavior of their
people. The aim of the crime actors is to involve as many individuals as they can into illegal activities as
their motto is they are stronger when there are many of them. That can significantly compromise an image
and reputation of such a society within international cycles as the majority of the honest world can feel
need to punish anyone supporting crime. The bad guys will always challenge and the mission of the good
guys is to protect innocent people being the victims of such an occurrence, so far.

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The 21 century has brought new technological revolution, as well as the heaps of security challenges.
Cybercrime costs global economy trillions of dollars per annum, but some sources claim that the overall
loss could be much bigger. Cyberspace has become a battlefield for cyber criminals and cyber warriors
as it can be used to access anything being online. Sitting in front of screen or using a cellular phone can
turn into horrifying experience as hackers are capable to do tracking, sabotage or espionage of anyone’s
accounts, devices or the other IT assets. Indeed, cyber security has developed some counter-measures
to reflect those inconveniences and some tendencies in science and technology can see the light at the
end of the tunnel. In other words, the situation is concerning, but there are some remarks it is possible to
tackle such a crime.

Combating cybercrime is a criminology question and the current trends suggest nowadays best practice
in case management is a powerful weapon in the hands of the investigators. Also, it is clear that there is
not yet full awareness how corruption can be dangerous in generating novel insider threats which can try
to ruin the system from inside. The crime’s environment has evaluated into respectful ecosystem which

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