Computer Crime Statutes. Laws Addressing Hacking, Unauthorized Access, Computer Trespass, Viruses and Malware "Unauthorized access" entails approaching, trespassing within, communicating with, storing data in, retrieving data from, or otherwise intercepting and changing computer resources without consent. California Cal. Laws ch. Minnesota Minn. Missouri Mo. Code Ann.
Rhode Island R. Tennessee Tenn. Vermont Vt. Virginia Va. West Virginia W. As of Dec. Connecticut Conn. Indiana Requires the office of technology to maintain a repository of cybersecurity incidents, provides that a state agency and a political subdivision shall report any cybersecurity incident, including ransomware, to the office without unreasonable delay and not later than two business days after discovery of the cybersecurity incident in a format prescribed by the chief information officer, allows the office of technology to assist a state agency with certain issues concerning information technology.
Maryland Prohibits a person from knowingly possessing certain ransomware with the intent to use the ransomware for purposes of introduction into a computer, network or system of another person, alters and establishes certain penalties, authorizes a victim of a certain offense to bring a civil action for damages against a certain person.
North Carolina S. North Dakota Requires an entity to disclose to the department an identified or suspected cybersecurity incident that affects the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of information systems, data, or services.
Texas Tex. Insurance purchased under this section may include coverage for business and dependent business interruption loss, breach response, data recovery, cyber extortion or ransomware response, fiduciary liability, media liability, professional liability, or expenses for general incident management, such as investigation, remediation, and notification.
Wyoming Wyo. State Citation Alabama Ala. State Citation Alaska Alaska Stat. Arkansas Ark. Hawaii Hawaii Rev. This website uses cookies to analyze traffic and for other purposes. You consent to the use of cookies if you use this website. Computer piracy is illegal and constitutes a federal crime.
This agreement defines rules for software use and not every agreement is the same. One common rule in most EULAs prohibits users from sharing the software with others. There are five main types of software piracy. This variety of pirating techniques explains how some individuals purposely pirate software while others may unknowingly be an accomplice.
Softlifting is when someone purchases one version of the software and downloads it onto multiple computers, even though the software license states it should only be downloaded once. This often occurs in business or school environments and is usually done to save money. Softlifting is the most common type of software piracy.
Client-server overuse is when too many people on a network use one main copy of the program at the same time. This often happens when businesses are on a local area network and download the software for all employees to use.
Hard disk loading is a type of commercial software piracy in which someone buys a legal version of the software and then reproduces, copies or installs it onto computer hard disks. The person then sells the product. Counterfeiting occurs when software programs are illegally duplicated and sold with the appearance of authenticity.
Counterfeit software is usually sold at a discounted price in comparison to the legitimate software. Online piracy, also known as Internet piracy, is when illegal software is sold, shared or acquired by means of the Internet. These requests cannot be served as normal requests. Doxing: It is another type of attack when someone shares another person's personal information with anyone without their consent.
The personal information may be in the form of someone's full name, address, history, password, and other identifying information.
Espionage: Espionage is the act of spying on a person or business to obtain secret or confidential information. A person who performs these kinds of activities is known as a spy or espionage agent. Espionage agents can work in company or independent operations to uncover agencies or other secret information.
Fraud: Fraud is the use of computers, internet services, or devices to manipulating data or defraud people or organizations; for example, to participate in credit card fraud or to transfer money to an account, changing banking records. Examples of illegal computer activities include: social engineering, DDoS, viruses, and phishing attacks are used to gain unauthorized access to another fund. Harvesting: A harvester is a software, also known as a web harvester, that is designed to gather account or account-related information of others, or it is also used to parse large amounts of data.
For instance, large numbers of web pages may be processed by a web harvester to take out names, phone numbers, email addresses, account names from the website. Human trafficking: It is one of the serious crimes, which is an act of participating in buying or selling other humans. Basically, it graves a violation of human rights. There are thousands of men, women, and children who become a victim of traffickers. Approximately all countries in the world become a victim of attackers.
Identity theft: Identity theft is an act to be a person you are not that one. In this category, attackers try to gain information illegally about someone else. Attackers or thieves can try to information such as phone number, credit card numbers, full name, maiden name, social security number, passwords, etc.
Illegal sales: It is an act of purchasing or selling illicit goods online, such as psychotropic substances, drugs, guns, and more. Intellectual property theft: It is a category of property where a human creates something by using their own mind. In this case, if anyone steals practical or conceptual information that is created by other persons or organizations, it comes under intellectual property theft, which is known as a crime. Trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks, and patents are well-known types of intellectual property.
Phishing or vishing: It is a term that is used to deceive individuals or groups to obtain secret information about that person. For that, they create web pages designed to gather personal information like a credit card, online bank, password, or other private information.
They also do so with the help of sending emails. Salami slicing: Generally, it can be defined as stealing small amounts of money from each transaction that builds into a large sum of illegally gained money.
Scam: A scam is a term that is used to trick people into believing something, which is not actually true. For example, people start a fraud scheme or business through which they gain money from an unsuspecting person.
Online scams have increased because the world is more connected to the network. And, it depends on you to keep careful yourself from these kinds of online scams Slander: A slander is an act of posting libel against another organization or person. Software piracy: Generally, it describes illegally copying, distributing, or using software without ownership or legal rights.
Today, most of the software may have installed on one computer to use as it is purchased as a single-user license. If you share that software with anyone or copy it on multiple computer devices without purchasing multiple licenses, it is illegal and comes under software piracy.
Spamming: Spam is an e-mail distributed process that is used to promote a specific product or a scam to obtain other people's money by sending unsolicited e-mail to thousands and sometimes millions of people without their consent. It describes junk e-mail on the Internet that is also known as UCE unsolicited commercial e-mail , mass e-mail marketing, and bulk e-mail. Spoofing: Generally, the term spoof describes hacking or deception that means to deceive a system by imitating another person, computer, hardware device.
You do that bypassing security measures. IP spoofing is one of the well-known spoofing's. Typosquatting: Cybersquatting is a term used to describe a domain that is a misspelling of another domain.
Generally, it is also known as domain squatting and typo squatting that means a company or individual knowingly buys a domain and holds it resale at a premium price.
Unauthorized access: When someone tries to access a system, server, program, and service by using an illegal method or someone else's account information.
Basically, unauthorized access means accessing a system on which you have no permission to access. For the case, you have a Gmail account, and someone kept guessing a password or username for your account and accessed this account, which is considered unauthorized access. Wiretapping : Wiretapping is the surreptitious electronic monitoring device that is used to connect a device to a phone line to listen to conversations.
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