State Laws
Computer Crime laws vary greatly from state to state. Many have different definitions on what is a computer crime, what penalties are allowed, and how law enforcement handles such cases. For information on your state’s computer crime laws, check out this site.
If your state is not on the above list, try doing a Google search for “[state] computer crimes” (where [state] is your state).
Conclusion
Overall, I hope you have learned how to keep your data safe, secure, and away from malicious users. If you follow the advice of this column, you should have little trouble doing this. Just beware, hackers are coming up with new methods of security breaking methods as fast as security experts are patching older ones.
To close, here are many useful links that can be used to find more information on various aspects of security.
Informative Links:
http://www.abanet.org/crimjust/cjmag/17-2/crimes.html
http://www.panix.com/~eck/computer-fraud-act.html
http://nsi.org/Library/Compsec/computerlaw/statelaws.html
http://www.cybercrime.gov/
Hoax Databases:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html
http://www.f-secure.com/virus-info/hoax/
http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/
http://antivirus.about.com/library/blenhoax.htm
Encryption Programs:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/axcrypt/
http://www.pgp.com/downloads/freeware/freeware.html
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“War Games” & “Hackers: The Movie” sure did motivate a few kids to become internet security specialists. Groups formed on mIRC and it became pretty big at that time.