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India’s cybercrime epidemic: victims lose life savings to fake police

India’s cybercrime epidemic: victims lose life savings to fake police

Last year Indians lost £1.97bn to cybercriminals posing as inspectors on video calls, with uniforms, sound effects and personalised documents

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Rational Choice on a Hacker Forum: The Effect of Risk and Reward Cues on Target Selection for Account Hijacking This online field experiment tested how risk and reward cues in (fake) account credential ads on a hacker forum influence target selection for account hijacking. High-risk posts, warning of account...

Do cybercriminals weigh risk & reward when picking targets? Stibbe & @nscr-instituut.bsky.social found stolen account posts w/ big rewards got more views, while warnings scared users off. Police Op made admins delete “risky” posts—at first. Over time, that faded.

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Do our routines increase our risk of re-victimisation in different places? Summer research scholar, Donelle Steer, under the supervision of @lisatompson.bsky.social, looked at variables that approximate routine activities to determine if these are associated with risk of re-victimisation.

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‘It’s like solving a murder’: who dumped 30 tonnes of rubbish on Lichfield? The city is determined to solve the ‘whodumpedit’ mystery after a huge pile of refuse was discarded, blocking the road. But with fly-tipping across the UK on the up, will it be possible to find the cu...

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Less widely know fact: JB contributed to the development of the Thames River Police (1st police station).

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Using Agent-Based Modelling and Reinforcement Learning to Study Hybrid Threats by Kärt Padur, Hervé Borrion and Stephen Hailes

Ever wondered how to model hybrid threats? The answer is in this new JASSS paper💫 www.jasss.org/28/1/1.html @uclcrimescience.bsky.social

Public trust in the police is an almost ever-present feature of United Kingdom policy, political and indeed cultural debates, and this has been true right across the past quarter century. Concentrating on the population-level picture, and on England and Wales, in this article I outline what we know about changes in ‘trust and confidence’ over the past two decades or so, and make comparison with changes in other, closely associated, indicators. Why it might be that over this period trust in police first increased significantly, and then declined? Answers to this question implicate what might be termed the political economy of trust. Change in public trust may be due to a whole set of factors operating across multiple levels of policing and the society in which it takes place.

Nice, short summary by my colleague @benbradford.bsky.social of what’s driven changes in public confidence in police (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿) over the past 25 years. A useful reminder of the factors behind the short-term noise of media coverage.

https://doi.org/10.1177/14613557241298858

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Someone should really be on Twitter, not Bluesky

How to get started with academic Bluesky As prominent individual and institutional accounts eschew Twitter/X for new social media platforms, Bluesky is having a moment. Drawing on the experience of colleagues on the platform, Ned Potter, …

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Implementation failure in Jakarta: local solutions to a global problem