Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (CFAA) is a United States cybersecurity bill that was enacted in 1986 as an amendment to existing computer fraud...
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the United States, computer fraud is specifically proscribed by the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), which criminalizes computer-related acts under...
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to commit a cyber-crime, and the penalties for violation. The 2002 update on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act expands the act to include the protection...
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Computer trespass is a computer crime in the United States involving unlawful access to computers. It is defined under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act...
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an amendment to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The Act was enacted in 1996 as an amendment to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. It modifies the earlier...
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American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist, was prosecuted for multiple violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of...
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three federal laws: The Stored Communications Act, the Wiretap Statute and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The court held that DoubleClick was not liable...
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City based computer, trial and appellate lawyer. He is best known for representing hackers prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA"),...
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Suicide of Megan Meier (redirect from Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act)
relation to the hoax. Lori Drew was indicted and convicted by a jury of violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in 2008 over the matter. Her conviction...
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"authorization" in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The major finding of this case is that even if an employee accesses a computer for an improper purpose...
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based upon the interpretation of the word "transmission" in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030. Jacob Citrin had been employed by IAC, who...
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copyright infringement (compilation), (2) violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA"), and (3) trespass to chattel. However, the effectiveness of...
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Morris worm (redirect from Morris (computer worm))
US under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. It was written by Robert Tappan Morris, a graduate student at Cornell University, and launched on 8:30...
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Robert Tappan Morris (category People charged with computer fraud)
prosecuted for releasing the worm, and became the first person convicted under the then-new Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). He went on to cofound the...
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Van Buren v. United States (category United States computer case law)
the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and its definition of "exceeds authorized access" in relation to one intentionally accessing a computer system...
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Cybercrime (redirect from Computer abuse)
Siber suçlarla mücadele - Turkish Cyber Agency Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Computer security Computer trespass Cloud computing security Budapest Convention...
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Amendment protection. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) was enacted in 1986 as an amendment to an existing computer fraud law (18 U.S.C. § 1030),...
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United States v. Nosal (category United States computer case law)
scope of criminal prosecutions of former employees under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The Ninth Circuit's first ruling (Nosal I) established...
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for investigation and remediation, clearing threshold of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and making the DDoS a federal crime. Helped by his pro-bono attorney...
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October 2023, Air Canada sued Carroll and Seats.aero under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act over automated scraping of award-fare data; a U.S. judge denied...
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rules, blocking expansion of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, under which co-founder Aaron Swartz was indicted, and other key legislative efforts. Estimated...
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Hack-for-hire operation (category Hacking (computer security))
systems and computer networks. They are generally punishable under the computer crime laws of many countries, including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)...
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him were later dropped, and he agreed to plead guilty to having committed a misdemeanor under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, something that Jesselyn...
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himself became the first person tried and convicted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Conficker, a computer worm discovered in 2008 that primarily...
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block to access a website is a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for "unauthorized access", and is thus punishable by civil damages. Block (Internet)...
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the United States and the United Kingdom under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and Computer Misuse Act 1990 respectively. In 2023 it was revealed that a...
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Craigslist Inc. v. 3Taps Inc. (category United States computer case law)
sending a cease and desist letter and blocking a client's IP address are sufficient to qualify as notice under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The court...
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Pegasus (spyware) (category Espionage scandals and incidents)
the NSO Group violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act, and WhatsApp's terms of service...
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United States v. Kane (category United States computer case law)
“protected computers”, the Court first defined a computer to having the meaning given by 18 U.S.C. § 1030(e)(1) (the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act), which...
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Aaron Swartz (category People charged with computer fraud)
Ortiz, charged him with two counts of wire fraud and eleven violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, carrying a cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million...
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