The Legal Regulation of Cyber Attacks - Hardcover

Reseña del editor

The Legal Regulation of Cyber Attacks provides a thorough analysis of the legal regulation of attacks against information systems in European, international, and comparative law contexts. Modern societies are to a great extent dependent on computers and information systems, but there is a negative side to the use of information and communication technology – the rise of a new kind of criminality not traditionally addressed by the law. Technological developments and the changing nature of cybercrime force legislators to deal with new objects and redefine concepts. Taking into account legislative and case law developments, this book covers legal issues not only pertaining to attacks arising in criminal law but also crucial problems such as the conflict of cybercrime investigation and prosecution with fundamental rights to privacy and freedom of expression.

What’s in this book:

The authors’ in-depth response to doctrinal and practical issues related to the application of cybercrime regulation includes elements, issues, and aspects such as the following:

• legal harmonization of cybercrime law
• jurisdictional issues in the investigation and prosecution of cybercrime;
• prevention of cyber attacks;
• personal data and privacy implications;
• hacking of cell phones;
• enforcement and forensics in cybercrime law;
• states and legal persons as perpetrators of cybercrime;
• European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection;
• Cybercrime Convention of 2001;
• Directive 2013/40/EU;
• identity theft;
• the Snowden revelations and their lessons;
• principles, problems, and shortcomings of digital evidence;
• legal status of the IP address;
• the security and data breach notification as a compliance and transparency tool;
• profile and motivation of perpetrators of cyber attacks;
• cybercrime as a parallel economy; and
• use of crypto-currency as a means for blackmail operations.

Technical definitions, case law, and analysis of both substantive law and procedural law contribute to a comprehensive understanding of cybercrime regulation and its current evolution in practice. Furthermore, this book evaluates the complex legal framework and the practical and legal challenges of the regulation of attacks against information systems.

How this will help you:

Being the first book to deal with the criminalization of cyber attacks, this book clarifies the nature of the conflict of cybercrime investigation and prosecution with fundamental rights to privacy and freedom of expression. Addressing a topic of growing importance in unprecedented detail, this book is an extremely useful reference tool for professionals and authorities dealing with cybercrime, including lawyers, judges, academics, security professionals, information technology experts, and law enforcement agencies.

Biografía del autor

Ioannis Iglezakis is an Associate Professor of Law & Informatics at the Faculty of Law in the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki (Greece) and Attorney-at-law at the Thessaloniki Bar Association. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Aristotle University (Thessaloniki) in 1987. After completing a master degree in the Universities of Thessaloniki in History, Philosophy and Sociology of Law (1990), he completed a Master degree (MLE) in European Law at the University of Hannover (1993). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Thessaloniki in 1999, and his thesis was published in 2000. He was scientific assistant in the University of Thessaloniki (20022003) and subsequently, he assumed the position of Visiting Lecturer in the same University (20032009). In 2009 he was elected Assistant Professor, and in 2015 he was elected Associate Professor. He has authored several publications in Greece and also in several international legal reviews. He has participated in various EU funded projects related to Information law and EU law. His research interest include IT law, legal informatics, public, economic and EU law.