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, ...

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 ...

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.

When Henry Ford brought affordable automobiles to the average U.S. citizen in 1908, he also improved the fortunes of criminals by ushering in Crime 1.0 - technology-assisted crime. Suddenly bank ...

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 ...

Not surprisingly, computers have affected the law in countless and still-evolving ways, including criminal law. In that regard, Colorado has had a statute on the books since 1979 (and amended 10 times ...

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 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 ...

Official statistics show that cyber crime is on the rise in the UK, but the size of the problem in the business world is really unknown because not all victim organisations are reporting incidents.

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 ...

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 ...