This month, police officers in Marion, Kan., crashed into the newsroom of the Marion County Record, a weekly newspaper, and the home of its publisher to seize computers, cellphones and documents.

In many regards, 2025 proved to be a relatively normal year for the cyber security world as threat actors and security pros continued their long-running cat-and-mouse game, but it was also a stand-out ...

The Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section ransomware is a computer infection that displays a screen requesting money before it allows you to access your Windows desktop. This screen locker ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), in its manual on computer crime, defines such crime as “any violations of criminal law that involve a knowledge of computer technology for their perpetration, ...

On September 26, 1983, the House Committee on Science and Technology convened its first day of hearings on the increasingly urgent issue of computer security. The nation's exposure to cyber risks had ...

West recently published the fourth edition of my Computer Crime Law casebook. The first edition came out in 2006, followed by the second edition in 2009 and the third edition in 2013. This field moves ...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard argument Monday over whether a police officer broke a federal computer crime law when he accessed a government database to check a license plate for someone who bribed him ...

Alastair MacGibbon is the CEO of CREST Australia, a not-for-profit organisation that certifies "white hat" ethical hackers, and is managing partner of Surete Group, a consultancy dealing with improved ...

The UK criminal justice system needs further, urgent reform to better serve the needs of victims of cyber crime, who face barriers to reporting offences, receive inadequate support, and rarely achieve ...

The Supreme Court on Monday indicated serious reservations about the ambiguity and scope of the nation’s only major cybercrime law, hinting it may narrow the law’s applicability to avoid criminalizing ...

Pro-active measures need to be taken to bring down high tech crime rates, according to detective acting inspector Peter Wheeler from Melbourne's Computer Crime Squad, following today's release of the ...