Cybercrime is a matter of national interest but legal eagles need to understand the new rules and tools.
Consumers, businesses and governments are embracing e-commerce, social networking and the other powerful tools made available by online technologies.
This has seen a seedy underbelly of crime which has highlighted the importance of investigational and subsequent prosecutorial aspects of cyber crime and associated electronic evidence.
There is a technology-enabled element in most criminal matters investigated by law enforcement agencies worldwide. Measuring the impact of cybercrime and putting an accurate dollar value to it is also difficult.
Cyberspace is one of the great legal frontiers of our time. From 2000 to 2008, the internet expanded 336 percent on a global level.
The rapid development of the Internet, with global computer-based commerce and communications that cut across traditional territorial and state boundaries, continue to create a new realm of criminal activities among the cyberspace social, economic and political groupings. The emergence of new varieties of criminal activity has posed unique challenges for investigators, legal officers, the judiciary and the legal system when prosecuting cyber crime.
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Source: securecomputing.net.au
By: Nigel Phair
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