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    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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    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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    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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  • US under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. It was written by a graduate student at Cornell University, Robert Tappan Morris, and launched on 8:30...
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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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    "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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    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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    Cybercrime (redirect from Computer abuse)
    Police Department - Japan National Police Agency Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Computer security Computer trespass Cloud computing security Convention on...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Espionage Act of 1996, as 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...
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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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    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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    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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    of California and accused Google of being in breach of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Google Buzz shared...
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    91% rate, and Africa at 72%. In the US, denial-of-service attacks may be considered a federal crime under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act with penalties...
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    United States v. Morris (1991) (category Computer worms)
    and releasing the Morris worm, one of the first Internet-based worms. This case resulted in the first conviction under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act...
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  • Constitution. The MBTA claimed that the MIT students violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and on August 9, 2008, was granted a temporary restraining...
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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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    Aaron Swartz (category People charged with computer fraud)
    later 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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  • Protected computers is a term used in Title 18, Section 1030 of the United States Code, (the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) which prohibits a number of...
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    with the use of economic sanctions and diplomatic pressure. The 1986 18 U.S.C. § 1030, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is the key legislation. It prohibits...
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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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    Facebook, Inc. v. Power Ventures, Inc. (category Digital Millennium Copyright Act case law)
    Facebook and displayed it on their own website. Facebook claimed violations of the CAN-SPAM Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA"), and the California...
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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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    United States v. John (2010) (category United States computer case law)
    "exceeds authorized access" in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act 18 U.S.C. §1030(e)(6) and concluded that access to a computer may be exceeded if the purposes...
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