Cyberlaw Book Resources – Chapter 14

Chapter 14 resources for the Cyberlaw book

By John Bandler

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Chapter 14: Cybercrime and Identity Theft: Stealing from Others Using Digital Spaces and Creating a Black Market for Data

In this chapter I define cybercrime and discuss the basics, its relation to identity theft, the cybercrime and identity theft economy, why theft is no longer local, introduce payments and virtual currency and the Western Express case, discuss my Three Priority Threats, and of course the connection to law and cyberlaw.

Chapter references, resources, and additional reading

• Chapter 14 resources, https://johnbandler.com/cyberlawbook-resources-ch14/
• Foundations within the book
  • Chapter 13, How we Got to Cyberlaw
  • Part 2, Chapters 4-12, Introducing Law, Crime, etc.
• Cybercrime, https://johnbandler.com/cybercrime/
• Video: What is Cybercrime (in eleven minutes), https://youtu.be/Rhx5lIgXq7Y
• Identity Theft, https://johnbandler.com/identity-theft/
• The Three Priority Cybercrime Threats, https://johnbandler.com/priority-cybercrime-threats/
  • Data breach, https://johnbandler.com/data-breach/
  • Ransomware, https://johnbandler.com/ransomware/
  • Email based funds transfer frauds, https://johnbandler.com/email-based-funds-transfer-frauds/
• Part 4 Criminal Cyberlaw, especially
  • Chapter 19, Western Express
  • Chapter 20, Substantive cybercrime laws
  • Chapter 22, Virtual currency
• Prior books:
  • Cybersecurity for the Home and Office (2017), Chapter 2, The Black Market for Your Data: The Cybercrime Economy
  • Cybercrime Investigations (2020), Chapter 2, What is Cybercrime and Why is it Committed

Chapter questions

• List the three priority cybercrime threats
• How is cybercrime similar to “traditional” crime, and how is it different?
• What is most cybercrime really for? Why do they do it?
• How is identify theft harder to investigate compared to traditional theft?
• Why do identity theft and cybercrime go together?
• What was the first main virtual currency and what year?
• What came first, Egold or Bitcoin, and in what years?

Links and information

• The book: Cyberlaw: Law for Digital Spaces and Information Systems, by John Bandler
• Cyberlaw Book Resources (main resources page)
• Cyberlaw book FAQ
• Cyberlaw main book page
• Amazon - John's Author page
• Udemy online course on cyberlaw (other online courses too)
• Services
  • Cybersecurity Services

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