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- Presents a state-of-the-art review of mobile device forensics
- Explains how law enforcement agencies can use mobile device forensic tools to detect and prevent cybercrime
- Reviews the benefits of and challenges to digital surveillance in Nigeria
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Cybersecurity (BRIEFSCYBER)
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This book reviews the use of digital surveillance for detecting, investigating and interpreting fraud associated with critical cyberinfrastructures in Nigeria, as it is well known that the country’s cyberspace and cyberinfrastructures are very porous, leaving too much room for cyber-attackers to freely operate. In 2017, there were 3,500 successful cyber-attacks on Nigerian cyberspace, which led to the country losing an estimated 450 million dollars.
These cybercrimes are hampering Nigeria’s digital economy, and also help to explain why many Nigerians remain skeptical about Internet marketing and online transactions. If sensitive conversations using digital devices are not well monitored, Nigeria will be vulnerable to cyber-warfare, and its digital economy, military intelligence, and related sensitive industries will also suffer. The Nigerian Army Cyber Warfare Command was established in 2018 in order to combat terrorism, banditry, and other attacks by criminal groups in Nigeria. However, there remains an urgent need to produce digital surveillance software to help law enforcement agencies in Nigeria to detect and prevent these digitally facilitated crimes. The monitoring of Nigeria’s cyberspace and cyberinfrastructure has become imperative, given that the rate of criminal activities using technology has increased tremendously. In this regard, digital surveillance includes both passive forensic investigations (where an attack has already occurred) and active forensic investigations (real-time investigations that track attackers).In addition to reviewing the latest mobile device forensics, this book covers natural laws (Benford’s Law and Zipf’s Law) for network traffic analysis, mobile forensic tools, and digital surveillance software (e.g., A-BOT). It offers valuable insights into how digital surveillance software can be used to detect and prevent digitally facilitated crimes in Nigeria, andhighlights the benefits of adopting digital surveillance software in Nigeria and other countries facing the same issues.
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Book Title: Cybersecurity in Nigeria
Book Subtitle: A Case Study of Surveillance and Prevention of Digital Crime
Authors: Aamo Iorliam
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Cybersecurity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15210-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15209-3Published: 29 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15210-9Published: 15 March 2019
Series ISSN: 2193-973X
Series E-ISSN: 2193-9748
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 55
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mobile and Network Security, Cybercrime, African Economics, Computer Communication Networks, Biometrics, Legal Aspects of Computing