Electronic Theft Unlawful Acquisition in Cyberspace

Klappentext Electronic Theft names! describes and analyses the range of electronic and digital theft. Zusammenfassung This book covers a broad list of electronic misdemeanours! including extortion! defrauding governments! telephone fraud! securities fraud! deceptive advertising and other business practices! industrial espionage! intellectual property crimes! and the misappropriation and unauthorised use of personal information. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Theft and cyberspace; 2. Stealing funds electronically; 3. Digital extortion; 4. Defrauding governments electronically; 5. Telephone fraud and theft of internet services; 6. Online securities fraud; 7. Electronic 'snake oil': deceptive and misleading online advertising and business practices; 8. Intellectual property in cyberspace; 9. Industrial espionage in the digital age; 10. The electronic misappropriation and dissemination of personal information; 11. The limits of the law in controlling electronic theft; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Russell G. Smith, Peter Grabosky, Gillian Dempsey, Peter (Australian Institute of Criminolo Grabosky, Smith Russell G., Peter Smith Grabosky, Dempsey Gillian
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 22.07.2010
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology
• EAN: 9780521152860
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15286-0
• Pages: 246
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Internet Guides & Online Services, Internet guides and online services, COMPUTERS / Internet / Web Services & APIs