Cybercrime, Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics

Learning Outcomes

Within the framework of the course, students will be able to:

• Demonstrate a critical understanding of the relationships between law and digital technologies.
• Understand contemporary legal issues arising from the widespread use of information and communication technologies.
• Possess significant knowledge of modern attacks on information systems and cybercrimes.
• Have the ability to critically analyze modern regulatory approaches to addressing cybercrimes.
• Understand the various dimensions of economic cybercrimes.
• Possess advanced knowledge of the evolving landscape of digital criminology and regulations regarding e-evidence.
• Understand the legal, socio-legal, and geopolitical dimensions of cybersecurity.
• Possess state-of-the-art specialized scientific knowledge in the subjects of the course as a basis for original thinking and research activities.

Syllabus

• Introduction to the concept of Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, and Digital Forensics – Introduction to basic concepts.
• International Environment and Framework: Convention on Cybercrime, Union Framework (NIS Directives 1/2, Cybersecurity Act, etc.) – Overview of the Greek regulatory framework governing cybercrime/electronic crime.
• Unauthorized access to information systems/attacks on information systems (e.g., disruption of operation): Legal framework – Forms of attacks (Legal dimension, reference to attack forms).
• Unauthorized access to data/data tampering (Legal dimension, reference to attack forms).
• Crimes against privacy/freedom of communications and security (electronic) communications (Legal dimension, reference to attack forms).
• Economic Cybercrime: Digital fraud/computer fraud. Social engineering as a method of fraud.
• Economic Cybercrime: Cryptocurrencies and criminal law.
• Unfair and illegal content on the Internet (child pornography/hate speech, etc.) – Issues regarding the detection of unfair and illegal content on the Internet.
• Cybercrime: Jurisdiction, Judicial cooperation – Place of the crime. Concept and regulation of e-evidence.
• Digital Forensic Investigation: Preconditions – Technical/legal – Procedural requirements, methodology issues, applications, and tools.
• Digital Forensic Investigation: Visit to/lectures from Cybercrime Prosecution Officials, Directorate of Cybercrime Investigations.
• Concepts and legal dimension/legal-political/geopolitical dimension of Cybersecurity. Evolution and Policies for Cybersecurity.
• Regulatory framework and implementation issues (NIS Directive 2/Cybersecurity Act) – Implementation bodies – Implementation issues.