Cybercrime, Digital Forensics and Jurisdiction (Studies in Computational Intelligence)
Language: English
Pages: 145
ISBN: 3319151495
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The purpose of law is to prevent the society from harm by declaring what conduct is criminal, and prescribing the punishment to be imposed for such conduct. The pervasiveness of the internet and its anonymous nature make cyberspace a lawless frontier where anarchy prevails. Historically, economic value has been assigned to visible and tangible assets. With the increasing appreciation that intangible data disseminated through an intangible medium can possess economic value, cybercrime is also being recognized as an economic asset.
The Cybercrime, Digital Forensics and Jurisdiction disseminate knowledge for everyone involved with understanding and preventing cybercrime - business entities, private citizens, and government agencies. The book is firmly rooted in the law demonstrating that a viable strategy to confront cybercrime must be international in scope.
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false pretenses. In these cases, the internet is a tool of the crime, but the initial act of searching out potential victims is not, by itself, criminal. Thus, a pedophile or rapist or other criminals who use the Net to find victims but then commit the criminal activity in the real world are using the internet incidentally to the crime. However, the internet can also be used to step up a sting operation that will turn the tables and lure the criminal into revealing his or her identity to law
file. 3.2 Types of Malicious Code 41 A second, more complex file infector is one that doesn’t alter the program itself, but alters the route a computer takes to open a file. In this way, the virus is executed first, and then the original program is opened. If a program or file that is infected with a file infector virus is passed from one computer to another, over a network or via floppy disk for example, the virus will begin infecting the “clean” computer as soon as the file or program is opened.
Draw, which use macro programming languages extensively in their products. Macro viruses use an application’s own macro programming language to distribute themselves. Macro viruses do not infect programs; they infect documents. Macro viruses typically arrive in an infected document, a price list written with MS Word for example. When the file is opened, the virus infects the base template on the victim computer, in this case “Normal.dot”. Normal.dot is the “framework” that Word documents are
information and to commit crimes, including defamation, harassment, stalking, and solicitation of minors (Casey 2004, p. 485). A system of news-servers 6.2 The Role of the Internet in Promoting Child Sexual Abuse 85 and a particular internet protocol takes care of worldwide distribution. A small number of newsgroups are devoted to pedophilia. On October 16th, 1996, Sharon Rina Lopatka, an internet entrepreneur in Hampstead, was killed in a case of apparent consensual homicide. Lopatka was
assess the age of solicitors, but youth reported that they believed that 43 % of solicitors were under 18.30 % were between 18 and 25.9 % were over 25, and 18 % were completely unknown.4 Studies demonstrate that violence is rare in internet-initiated sex crimes. The evidence from the N-JOV Study (Wolak et al. 2008, p. 119) suggests that online child molesters are not among that minority of child offenders who abduct or assault victims because they have sadistic tendencies or lack the