Month: February 2019

Dr. Baumgartner just completed a short video project (details coming soon…). This was put together, as an outtake of sorts, by the director.

Dr. Olga Smirnova recently published a White Paper, “The Representation of Victim Nations in Stolen Data Markets” (https://cj.msu.edu/assets/CINA-White_Papers-Smirnova_Geo_Distribution.pdf) as part of the work on social network analysis of hacker communities:

“The cybercriminals sell stolen data on various online platforms such as Open Web and Dark Web forums. To this date, there is limited research on the types of products sold on the “Dark Web”. This brief reports geographic distribution of victim nations differences between Open and Dark web forums. The criminals tend to advertise in line with their perceptions of detection. The forums where advertisements occur have larger impact on prices and types of exchanges than the geographical locations where the data comes from.”

The project was funded by a DHS grant, through the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University, as part of the Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis Center (CINA) led by George Mason University.

Congratulations to Dr. Samantha Mosier for being selected to be one of this year’s class of participants in the BB&T Active Learning and Leadership Development Incentive Grant Program! During the program she will be working to document connections between active learning and developing leadership skills among our students.

Col. Robert Scott Barker (US Army, retired) will remain the president of the Pitt County Veterans Council for another year and has recently been named the master of ceremonies for this year’s Memorial Day event on the Greenville Town Commons on the 27th of May.

Dr. Casey Fleming will present a project at the annual conference of the American Society for Public Administration in March 2019 in Washington, DC. This study, with data drawn from interviews and survey data of city and county managers across three southeastern states, investigates the factors affecting career trajectories or the “path to managerhood” of local government executives, including formal skills, professional and social networks, and mentoring as well as luck and good fortune.