Welcome to Cybercrime Laws!
This blog is part of my cybercrime module taught currently at the University of Essex (UK). I see it as a database with which I, and others, can work.
The updates are not daily, partly because of lack of time, partly because it is easier to group similar subjects in one post after a week or so. RSS feeds (and sharing) are available.
The original blog was on Blogger (blogspot.com), but for maintenance purposes, transfer to Wordpress became necessary. The original blog is still up and running (I just import/export posts)
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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Twitter hacked
Twitter has been hacked again (previously it was Barack Obama’s account). This time it seems that the hacker obtained the passwords from an employee (probably involuntarily given by the employee) allowing him/her to access many internal documents, some confidential. So … Continue reading
Cybercrime trends and security issues
Quite obvious: “US prosecutor: Cybercrime will follow the cloud” (ZDnet.co.uk, 13 july 2009) More surprising: “Cisco reports rise in text-message scams” (ZDnet.co.uk, 15 July 2009) And quite welcome: France now has its Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information, … Continue reading
Spam and scam: trends confirmed
why spam continues to fill up our boxes? because some of us continue to fall for it, enough obviously to make spam a viable option.12% of Americans do open spam messages and fall in the trap according to the Messaging … Continue reading
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Update on Mr. McKinnon’s case
“Tories champion Nasa hacker in parliament” (ZDnet.co.uk, 15 July 2009): in this one, it is interesting to note that Home Secretary Johnson does not see the point of a reform or discussion of reform of the Extradition Act 2003 Nasa … Continue reading
Views on regulation on the net
Axel Pawlik, managing director of the Ripe NCC, writes about regulation on the net. He considers that ISPs should not take an active role in regulation, notably in relation to piracy. THey should be treated like telecom companies which list … Continue reading
Update on Hadopi 2
lots of daily changes on the bill related to piracy. The amendment about e-mail surveillance has been withdrawn and the whole discussion postpones to early september. It’s true the bill ‘raised’ 800 amendments! Will France’s Three Strikes Law Also Allow … Continue reading
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“Soca’s cybercops convict 21 in three years” (ZDnet.co.uk, 16 July 2009)
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Boston Review — Evgeny Morozov: Cyber-Scare
Boston Review — Evgeny Morozov: Cyber-Scare
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Does The US Government Really Need ‘Wider Latitude’ To Monitor Private Networks? | Techdirt
Does The US Government Really Need ‘Wider Latitude’ To Monitor Private Networks? | Techdirt (9 July 2009) Surprising that Prof Goldsmith would accept more monitoring of the net by Government, because education and information sharing are not proven methods to … Continue reading
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Update on Hadopi 2 (Senate)
Juriscom.net – droit des technologies de l’informationSandrine Rouja, Une deuxième loi “création et internet” pour juillet, versant pénal (25 June 2009)Le Sénat adopte le projet de loi HADOPI 2 (Juriscom. 9 July 2009)for the details (in French) on the French … Continue reading
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