Prosecuting Computer Crimes

Download or read book Prosecuting Computer Crimes written by U.s. Department of Justice and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prosecuting Computer Crimes" examines the federal laws that relate to computer crimes. Our focus is on those crimes that use or target computer networks, which we interchangeably refer to as "computer crime," "cybercrime," and "network crime." Examples of computer crime include computer intrusions, denial of service attacks, viruses, and worms. We do not attempt to cover issues of state law and do not cover every type of crime related to computers, such as child pornography or phishing. This publication is the second edition of "Prosecuting Computer Crimes" and updates the previous version published in February 2007. During the three years since then, case law developed and, more importantly, Congress significantly amended the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.