Articles & Analysis

December 15, 2003 · Andrey Belousov
Software Legalization in Ukraine

Pirated computer software and pirated databases use in Ukraine became recently a critical problem. On one side, legal manufacturers of intellectual goods push…

December 11, 2003 · Vladimir Golubev
Criminals in Computer Related Crimes

Issues concerning criminals in field of computer technologies have been already examined in works of foreign and domestic authors: N. Akhtyrskaya, P.…

November 29, 2003 · Computer Viruses and Organized Crime
Computer Viruses and Organized Crime

Internet security experts are divided on the source and purpose of computer viruses and worms like Blaster and SoBig. But some government agencies are…

November 28, 2003 · Computer Crime Research Center
Fighting the worms of mass destruction

WHEN Microsoft released its latest monthly batch of software patches on November 11th, it included one designed to repair a previously unknown flaw in Windows…

November 25, 2003 · Computer Crime Research Center
Questions for CCRC Director Asked and Answered

*The Computer Crime Research Center (CCRC) is represented in the Internet by websites: [http://www.crime-research.org/](http://www.crime-research.org/),…

November 25, 2003 · Computer Crime Research Center
Questions for DoJ IP Attorneys Asked and Answered

These answers are from the lawyers in the U.S. DoJ's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) -- the people who prosecute criminal file-sharing…

November 24, 2003 · Computer Crime Research Center
Retailers’ Online Losses to Fraud Decline

CyberSource commissioned Mindwave Research to survey 333 merchants in North America in October, reporting that retailers’ losses from online fraud have…

November 19, 2003 · Natalia Akhtyrskaja
Secret Search in Fighting Cybercrime

Establishing the fact of committed crime is the main problem of investigating crimes in bank computer systems. Especially, in order to assert with good reason…

November 19, 2003 · Andrey Belousov
Information Resources Security

Fast development of automation processes, introduction of computers into all spheres of present-day life resulted in some specific problems. Effective…

November 19, 2003 · Timofey A. Saytarly
Fighting Child pornography

In time of intensive global computerization humanity faced plenty of challenges, which have quickly turned into real threats to economic and social well-being.…

November 19, 2003 · Vasili Polivanyuk
Legal Problems of Information Security

For today, a problem of the information security (IS) is one of the most critical not only in Ukraine, but also in developed countries. The experience of using…

November 5, 2003 · Valeriy Cherkasov
Information technologies and organized crime

The research of criminal situation and study of its peculiarities and tendencies in 21 century is impossible without scientific and technical phenomenon as a…

November 5, 2003 · Andrey Belousov
Criminalistics Characteristic of Crimes Connected to Copyrights

The criminalistics characteristic of criminal identity demands its research on the stage of common data and on the stage of analysis statistics and…

November 5, 2003 · Computer Crime Research Center
Remarks by Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge To the National Press Club

MS. LYTLE: This weekend marks the 100-day anniversary of America's newest cabinet agency, the Department of Homeland Security. Its Secretary, Tom Ridge, has…

November 5, 2003 · Vasiliy Polivanjuk
Some questions of specialists’ involvement into computer crime investigation

During the investigation of thefts, economic crimes in the credit-banc system – crimes committed with the help of IT – it’s possible to find computer equipment…

November 5, 2003 · Natalia Akhtyrskaja
Typical inquiry situations and expert ways of their settlement

Crimes are investigated in the specific conditions of time, place, environment, interconnections with other objective activity processes, conduct of persons…

November 5, 2003 · Andrey Belousov
Features of investigating copyright and related right infringements

The legal protection of copyrights and related rights in Ukraine’s legislation is a new theme for its theory and practice. Copying, spread and marketing…

November 5, 2003 · Vasiliy Polivanjuk
Legal expertise in investigating cybercrime

The most important form of using special knowledge during the preliminary and judicial investigation is an expert examination, which purpose is provided by…

November 5, 2003 · Vladimir Golubev
Fighting computer crimes in Ukraine

The global informational civilization has defined information as its base parameter – publishing business, press, radio, TV, computer technologies, other means…

November 5, 2003 · Timofey A. Saytarly
Internet-security: interests should be balanced

According to the Okinawa’s Charter of the Global information society, information and communication technologies are the most important factors forming the…

November 5, 2003 · Vitaliy Nomokonov
Actual problems of fighting cybercrimes

All of us are witnesses of a prompt development of information technologies. By 2005, about 1 billion computers will be connected to the Internet. At the same…

November 5, 2003 · Computer Crime Research Center
Interview: eBay Security Chief Howard Schmidt

The second piece is the vulnerabilities. In the history of computer programs, we still write computer programs that have inherent flaws. Buffer overruns is one…

November 5, 2003 · Mikhael Gutsaluk
Fighting cybercrimes

The problem of computer crimes has attracted attention of many foreign criminalists since the introduction of electronic computers that caused some negative…

November 5, 2003 · Andrey Belousov
Government regulating Information Technologies

One of the most difficult and important aspects in modern jurisprudence is the question on limits of national jurisdiction concerning Internet segments. The…