THE CHALLENGE OF FIGHTING CYBERCRIME IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.pdf

CYBERCRIME Page: 1 CYBERCRIME THE CHALLENGE OF FIGHTING CYBERCRIME IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Regional Workshop on Frameworks for Cybersecurity and Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Cap Verde 28. November 2008 Dr. Marco Gercke Lecturer for Criminal Law / Cybercrime, Faculty of Law, Cologne University CYBERCRIME Page: 2 CYBERCRIME GUIDE ? Aim: Providing a guide that is focussing on the demands of developing ? Including recent developments Content ? Phenomenon of Cybercrime ? Challenges of Fighting Cybercrime ? Elements of an Anti-Cybercrime Strategy ? Explanation of legal solutions - Substantive Criminal Law - Procedural Law - International Cooperation ITU GUIDE Picture removed in print version CYBERCRIME Page: 3 CYBERCRIME GUIDE ? Focus of the Guide ITU GUIDE Picture removed in print version CYBERCRIME Page: 4 DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ? Most of the infrastructure in western countries (US) ? Difficult to say that there are limits with regard to technical protection measures (great potential of technical development - like WMAX) ? Since 2005 more internet user in developing countries than in industrialised nations ? Getting access remains a crucial problem ? Access to the same sources - potentially the offences CYBER CAFE HANOI Picture removed in print version CYBERCRIME Page: 5 CYBERCRIME GUIDE ? Phenomenon ITU GUIDE Picture removed in print version CYBERCRIME Page: 6 CLASSIC IT-CRIMES ? Illegal access to a computer system was one of the dominating crimes in the early days of computer crimes ? Incredible technical development since that times ? Hacking attacks are still an important phenomenon - especially with regard to the automation of attacks ? But in addition a number of other offences were discovered HACKING Picture removed in print version CYBERCRIME Page: 7 Example (http:) Picture removed in print version EXPLOIT AUCTION ? Information about system vulnerabilities are published on websites ? In addition these information are offered for sale by some busi