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Criminal and criminological aspects of the phishing
Žilková, Markéta ; Gřivna, Tomáš (advisor) ; Richter, Martin (referee)
Criminal and criminological aspects of the phishing Abstract Present thesis is aimed on analysis of criminal and criminological aspects of phishing. While gathering the literature resources lack of studies systematically describing the problematic of phishing was discovered even though phishing is one of the most common cybernetical crimes and represents a significant thread for users of cyberspace. Czech literature is especially lacking studies concerning criminological aspects of phishing. This thesis is divided to two parts - criminological and criminal. This thesis presents complex description of phishing including its evolution and process of refinement. In the first part phishing as a phenomenon and also its history and types evolving with time are described. The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the trend of number of phishing attacks and to determine whether its increasing, decreasing or level. Given the human interactions in cyberspace increasing trend is expected. In the next part characteristics and motivation of offender, characteristics of the victim and possibilities of prevention are discussed. In this part mostly international sources are being used given the absence of Czech sources. In the criminal part European legislative is briefly mentioned. Nevertheless, this thesis is written in the...

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