By all accounts, the global cybercrime industry is significantly bigger than most of the major and well-known underground and underworld industries. This editorial highlights some of the major themes of this special issue on Global Cybersecurity of the Journal of Global Information Technology...

The Global Cybercrime Industry and Its Structure: Relevant Actors, Motivations, Threats, and Countermeasures -- Simple Economics of Cybercrime and the Vicious Circle -- An Institutional Perspective on Cybercrimes -- Increasing Returns and Externality in Cybercrimes -- Institutional Field Evolved...

In the history of warfare, there are a number of examples of strategic uses of asymmetric technologies. Consistent with history and theory, individuals, organizations and nations have spotted opportunities to employ information and communications technologies to gain and exploit asymmetric...

The flourishing synergy arising between organized crimes and the Internet has increased the insecurity of the digital world. How hackers frame their actions? What factors encourage and energize their behavior? These are very important but highly underresearched questions. We draw upon...

Internet and e-commerce are experiencing hyperbolic growth rates and highly asymmetric global distribution. There is also a significant variation worldwide in the means used to access the Internet and the e-commerce models adopted. This paper attempts to identify and synthesize the available...