PLS 780Week 9

Security and Cybercrime

• Online crime and computer crime• Cybercrime and law enforcement

The problem

• Cybercrime and cybersecurity as a national concern

Understanding computer crime: Fraud and ID Theft

• Fraud and identity theft: pharming, spoofing, phishing, malvertising and pretexting

• The FTC records and advises businesses and consumers who have been victims or near victims

Understanding computer crime: Privacy invasions

• Spyware• Cookies• Clickstream data analysis• Deep packet inspection• Web bug

Understanding computer crime: Cyberbullying, Stalking and harassment

• Increasingly illegal• Societal concerns are clear• What should laws look like?

Understanding computer crime: Commercial crimes

• Counterfeit goods• Intellectual property theft• Wrongful registration of a domain name• Hacking to steal trade secrets

Capital Records v Thomas-Rasset

• Facts• Issue• Holding• Reasoning• Rule

Spam

• Crime against computers, computer systems and users

Jaynes v Commonwealth

• Facts• Issue• Holding• Reasoning• Rule

Law enforcement and cybercrime

• Technological challenges• Legal challenges

US v Wecht

• Facts• Issue• Holding• Reasoning• Rule

Operational challenges

• Cybercrime involves complex events with multiplayer conspiracies—difficult to investigate

• Law enforcement is jurisdictionally based• Cybercrime occurs everywhere and nowhere• Different agencies deal with different crimes but

mostly falling under the FBI• Especially ecommerce related crimes

FTC v Neovi

• Facts• Issue• Holding• Reasoning• Rule

eBay v Digital Point Solutions

• Facts • Issue• Holding • Reasoning• Rule