1. PLS 780
Week 9

2. Security and Cybercrime
• Online crime and computer crime
• Cybercrime and law enforcement

3. The problem
• Cybercrime and cybersecurity as a national concern

4. 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

5. Understanding computer
crime: Privacy invasions
• Spyware
• Cookies
• Clickstream data analysis
• Deep packet inspection
• Web bug

6. Understanding computer
crime: Cyberbullying,
Stalking and harassment
• Increasingly illegal
• Societal concerns are clear
• What should laws look like?

7. Understanding computer
crime: Commercial
crimes
• Counterfeit goods
• Intellectual property theft
• Wrongful registration of a domain name
• Hacking to steal trade secrets

8. Capital Records v
Thomas-Rasset
• Facts
• Issue
• Holding
• Reasoning
• Rule

9. Spam
• Crime against computers, computer systems and
users

10. Jaynes v Commonwealth
• Facts
• Issue
• Holding
• Reasoning
• Rule

11. Law enforcement and
cybercrime
• Technological challenges
• Legal challenges

12. US v Wecht
• Facts
• Issue
• Holding
• Reasoning
• Rule

13. 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

14. FTC v Neovi
• Facts
• Issue
• Holding
• Reasoning
• Rule

15. eBay v Digital Point
Solutions
• Facts
• Issue
• Holding
• Reasoning
• Rule