Reputation in a dark network of online criminals.
This paper focuses on criminals who could easily be labelled as entrepreneurs and who deal in compromised computer systems. Known as botmasters, these individuals use their technical skills to take over and control personal, business and governmental computers. These networks of hijacked computers a...
| Publicado en: | Global Crime Vol. 14; no. 2/3; pp. 175 - 197 |
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