Cyber-Crimes: Challenges of the Millennium Age

Abstract

The connecting gains arising between organized crimes and the Internet has increased the lapses of the digital world. How do hackers frame their attitudes? What factors encourage and improvise their actions? These are very vital but highly under studied questions. Drawing upon psychology, economics and international relation to propose a framework that elaborates these questions, we found that countries across the globe differ in terms of regulations, normative and cognitive legitimacy to different types of web problems. Cyber wars and crimes are also functions of the stocks of hacking skills relative to the availability of economic availabilities. An attacking unit’s selection criteria for the target network include reasonable significance and criticalness, level of digitization of values and weakness in defense systems. Managerial and policy implications are elaborated and directions for future research are suggested.