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The main target audience for this book will be academics, postgraduate students, legal practitioners, and policy-makers. The book is also aimed at journalist, economists, political scientists, and anyone interested in ex...

The writer and political activist Victor Hugo proclaimed at the World Peace Congress held in Paris in 1849 that the death penalty must be abolished. Now, 176 years after that historic speech, a new objective is needed: t...

First, it is essential to recognize that new technologies are not a magic bullet on their own. While they offer great opportunities, they also pose ethical challenges that must be addressed responsibly. Privacy, confiden...

In the last few years, the use of wireless networks has been growing exponentially in many situations of our daily life. They are implemented in very different environments and are used for a wide range of applications. ...

The fast evolution of Botnet malware made it extremely difficult to detect. Despite it can be just considered as a tool, nowadays it has become one of the most dangerous threats for system administrators. Botnets are us...

Driven by the financial distress of many social security systems worldwide, national public pension funds (PPFs) have proliferated in recent years. Considering the fact that in 2007, they managed assets globally by more ...

With the continuous expansion of data availability in many large-scale, complex, and networked systems, such as surveillance, security, Internet, and finance, it becomes critical to advance the fundamental understanding ...

Two kinds of contemporary developments in cryptography are examined. Widening applications of teleprocessing have given rise to a need for new types of cryptographic systems, which minimize the need for secure key distri...