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Future Crime

Professor Shane D JohnsonDawes Centre for Future Crime at UCL

Dawes Centre for Future Crime at UCL

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A classic Crime Harvest and Retrofit SolutionDawes Centre for Future Crime at UCL

There were only two permutations!

+ = Crime opportunity

+ = No crime opportunity

Future Crime

• How do we avoid crime harvests?

• There are no “future facts” Jouvenel (1967)

• Challenge of methods for futures….

– Horizon scanning– Delphi– Stated preferences– Penn testing– SRs

• Where to start?


Addressing Online CSE on Social Media

Crime, place and the internet

The effects of cyber weapons

Smart Cities: Opportunities for crime prevention

Cybercrime risks to future street infrastructure

Guarding against Adversarial perturbation

Biocrime

Detecting emerging crime in

online markets

Horizon Scanning using Machine

Learning

Refugee flows and instability*

Current Research Themes

Terrorist financing and money laundering

Crime, place and the internet Cryptocurrency &

Fraud

Advanced materials to

combat crime

Recent and future trends in

counterfeit goods

Developing technologies

IoT and Crime


Scoping projects

Longer projects

PhD projects


Ageing and online fraud

AI and Crime

Reducing domestic abuse with technology

Consumer Internet of Things (IoT)

Source: Intel


Consumer IoT

Race to market + No security regulation + Cost = ?


Systematic Review of Crime Facilitated by IoT

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Databases Searched: Web of Science, ProQuest, ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore Digital Library, and Scopus


Blythe, J. M., & Johnson, S. D. (2019). A systematic review of crime facilitated by the consumer Internet of Things. Security Journal, 1-29.

Thematic Synthesis


Methods of Attack

Method Description

Denial of Service (DoS) Services disrupted through > requests from single devicesDDoS DoS attacks from multiple sources (e.g. botnets)Malware Malicious s/ware to compromise device and change functionsMan-in-the-Middle Interception of data in transitPhysical attacks Attacker physically tampers with deviceData integrity Attacker compromises data — inserting, modifying, replay attackSpoofing Attacker masquerades as anotherSide channel Exploits seemingly non-sensitive info e.g. power usageUser impersonation Attacker impersonates user (e.g. social engineering attack)


Methodology & Plausability


Crimes/Harms


Open Source Search

• News media published in two 60-day periods: – 20 January 2018 to 21 March 2018, and – 14 May to 13 August 2019

• NLP screening

• Google searches (same period, 99 articles)

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Crimes/Harms


Secure by Design

• Warning signs of a crime harvest

• Heterogeneity – can you tell if a device is secure before you buy it?


Smart Cities

A city that uses information and communication technologies (ICTs) and all other technologies available to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of city services in order to save resources and improve citizens’ well-being

Ramaprasad et al. (2017)

Laufs, J., Borrion, H., and Bradford, B. (2020). Security and the smart city: A systematic review. Sustainable Cities and Society, 55


Smart Cities



Systematic Review – Systematic Approach?

• Crime/Security are often omitted from (Smart) city plans

• Needs a systematic approach - dependencies across (silo) systems and sectors

• Governance:– Who owns the data?– Balancing collective security and individual privacy?


Artificial Intelligence


Machines are learning to find concealed weapons in X-ray scansCOMPASS@CS_UCL

https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21711016-artificial-intelligence-moves-security-scanning-machines-are-learning-find

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21711000-week-how-optical-navigation-can-help-bomb-find-its-target-without-gps

Autonomous software

AI to prevent crime


https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21711016-artificial-intelligence-moves-security-scanning-machines-are-learning-find

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21711000-week-how-optical-navigation-can-help-bomb-find-its-target-without-gps

Adversarial Perturbations (speech to text)

Carlini, N., and Wagner, D. (2018). Audio Adversarial Examples: Targeted Attacks on Speech to Text. Deep Learning and Security Workshop.


Google AI thinks rifle is a helicopter (Can you spot the difference?)Adversarial examples are easier to create than previously understood

MIT team reliably fooled Google’s Cloud Vision API, a machine learning algorithm used in the real world today.

http://www.labsix.org/physical-objects-that-fool-neural-nets/https://www.wired.com/story/researcher-fooled-a-google-ai-into-thinking-a-rifle-was-a-helicopter/

Defeat to AI

AI to prevent crime

AI to commit crime

Adversarial perturbations


http://www.labsix.org/physical-objects-that-fool-neural-nets/

https://www.wired.com/story/researcher-fooled-a-google-ai-into-thinking-a-rifle-was-a-helicopter/

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)

https://forms.gle/9vD5hHHKNtc7y5p3A


https://forms.gle/9vD5hHHKNtc7y5p3A

AI and Crime


Biotechnology

• Traditional biological systems are re-created or modified in novel ways for various application purposes

• CRISPR, Gene drives, DNA testing

• In 2018, £2.2bn was raised by biotech companies in the UK


Synthetic Biology

• Biohacking - Athletes have historically abused steroids and growth hormones (Reardon & Creado, 2014)

• 23AndMe data sharing - informed consent?

• DNA encoded malware (Ney et al., 2017)


“Now that DNA sequencing, synthesis, manipulation, and storage are increasingly digitized, there are more ways than ever for nefarious agents both inside and outside of the community to compromise security.”

Peccoud et al 2017


Addressing Online CSE on Social Media

Crime, place and the internet

The effects of cyber weapons

Smart Cities: Opportunities for crime prevention

Cybercrime risks to future street infrastructure

Guarding against Adversarial perturbation

Biocrime

Detecting emerging crime in

online markets

Horizon Scanning using Machine

Learning


Current Research Themes

Terrorist financing and money laundering

Crime, place and the internet Cryptocurrency &

Fraud

Advanced materials to

combat crime

Recent and future trends in

counterfeit goods

Developing technologies

IoT and Crime


Scoping projects

Longer projects

PhD projects


Ageing and online fraud

AI and Crime

Reducing domestic abuse with technology

And finally

• Innovation-crime sequences

• Multidisciplinarity (AI, synbio, chemistry, sensors, cyber, ……)

• Multi-stakeholder (Gov, police, voluntary sector, industry, ……)

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