Open Source Intelligence and Cyber Crime: Social Media Analytics

This book shows how open source intelligence can be a powerful tool for combating crime by linking local and global patterns to help understand how criminal activities are connected. Readers will encounter the latest advances in cutting-edge data mining, machine learning and predictive analytics combined with natural language processing to detect, disrupt, and neutralize cyber and physical threats. Emerging trends such as the inevitable shift of conventional organized crime to the cyber arena are covered. Chapters contain state-of-the-art social media and open source intelligence research trends. This multidisciplinary volume will appeal to students, researchers, and professionals working in the fields of cybercrime and social network analysis and mining.