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Developments in technology offer many opportunities to make activities on the internet for making human life easier. Increasing use of internet technology and applications also involves some risks. Some risks are involved in the increasing use of internet technology applications due to security weaknesses or cyber-attack methods (such as malware, phishing attacks) which cause new victims to occur every day. Web-based phishing attacks are known as attacks designed to obtain victims' vital information, such as credit card information or personal passwords, using fake websites. The victims' daily life activities (such as internet banking, social media usage, corporate transactions, and deceptive campaigns) were monitored in the internet environment to enable them to enter their personal information into fake websites designed. Even though various researches and studies have been piloted to avoid web-based phishing attacks, the success rate is provocative. Identifying and examining the known tools, methods and approaches used by attackers in struggling web-based phishing attacks will provide important contributions to combat. This study was focused on the analysis of web-based phishing attacks with forensic methods. In this study, a real web-based phishing attack was selected and forensic analysis of the website used in the attack was analyzed. It could be concluded from the results of the study that the information about the attacker might be reachable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information technologies, which eliminate the boundaries of time and space, are effective in all areas of social and individual life with the opportunities and possibilities they provide. Recent practices created by digital transformation reveal new personal and social profiles and differentiate. So much so that, like many of our daily actions, crime types are gradually becoming digital, changing their scope and nature, and becoming more easily realizable. Crimes that come to the fore with digitalization make themselves felt as an important security problem with actions that directly target the information systems, their data, and integrity. From this perspective, in this study, it is aimed to determine the effect of increasing technological opportunities on criminal acts by examining the types of crimes whose scope and nature changed with information technologies. In the context of internet news, fraudulence methods were determined as the sample, and a total of 464 news articles on hurriyet.com.tr, which included the word fraud and were determined to have the most content related to fraudulence between 2008 and 2019, were taken into consideration. Content analysis technique was used in the study, and the ways and means of processing fraudulent activity were categorized and classified depending on the realization methods. In the context of the results of the research, it has been found that technological advances have transformed traditional criminal acts and instrumentalized digitalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information and communication Technologies (ICT) affect daily life in every way. The development of ICT, which enable the processing, storage and reuse of information in our globalized world, is a crucial issue as well as removing the borders of communication, trade and cultural interaction. In the literature, countries' ICT development has been examined and evaluated globally. Nevertheless, no similar work was found at the urban and rural level. In this study, ICT development level of the cities in Turkey were investigated by the application of PROMETHEE method between 2012 and 2016. ICT is evaulated with two factors as access and use. The access is evaluated with fiber optic cable length per person, fixed broadband internet fraud rate, fixed flat occupancy rate, number of households with internet access; usage is evaluated with regular Internet users, broadband internet subscribers, mobile broadband internet subscribers, mobile phone subscribers per capita. As a result of the study, it is found that the ICT development levels of the Marmara and Black Sea regions are higher than the eastern and southeastern Anatolia regions and that the usage levels are more effective than the access indicators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]