Cybercrime and the law : challenges, issues, and outcomes / Susan W. Brenner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brenner, Susan W., 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer crimes--United States.

Computer crimes.

Hackers.

Computer viruses.

Computer networks--Law and legislation.

United States.

Computer networks--Law and legislation--United States--Criminal provisions.

Computer networks.

Computer viruses--United States.

Hackers--United States.

Criminal jurisdiction--United States.

Criminal jurisdiction.

Physical Description:

263 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Northeastern University Press, [2012]

Summary:

The exponential increase in cybercrimes in the past decade has raised new issues and challenges for law and law enforcement. Based on case studies drawn from her work as a lawyer, Susan W. Brenner identifies a diverse range of cybercrimes, including crimes that target computers (viruses, worms, Trojan horse programs, malware and DDoS attacks) and crimes in which the computer itself is used as a tool (cyberstalking, cyberextortion, cybertheft, and embezzlement); Illuminating legal issues unique to investigations in a digital environment, Brenner examines both national law enforcement agencies and transnational crime, and shows how cyberspace erodes the functional and empirical differences that have long distinguished crime from terrorism and both from warfare. Book jacket.

Contents:

Hacking

Malware and DDoS attacks

Cybercrimes against property

Cybercrimes against persons

Cyber CSI : the evidentiary challenges of digital crime scenes

Cybercrime investigations and privacy

Transnational investigation of cybercrime

Mutating cyberthreats : crime, terrorism, and war.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-254) and index.

ISBN:

9781555537982

1555537987

9781555537999

1555537995

9781555538002

1555538002

OCLC:

785870481