CRIMINAL LAW PROTECTION OF INFORMATION SECURITY IN THE CONTEXT OF COMPUTER FRAUD
CRIMINAL LAW PROTECTION OF INFORMATION SECURITY IN THE CONTEXT OF COMPUTER FRAUD

Summary/Abstract: Globalization, development of new and increasingly advanced information and communication technologies and relocation of communications and activities from physical to cyber space have created an abundance of opportunities as well as risks. Protecting cyber space in the virtual world has become just as crucial as protecting the national borders in the real one. The expansion of new entities – social networks – at the beginning of 21st century, has opened up new domains for high-tech crime and various abuses of computer data that are generally driven by economic interest. The most common type of high-tech crime is computer fraud, abusing data and thus affecting their electronic processing and transmission, in turn causing extremely harmful consequences for the citizens, state and society. It is concluded that it is up to the state authorities and legislators to gain on technological development to be able to timely prevent such criminal acts using appropriate legal regulations, preventive, educational and other coordinated measures, i.e. to adequately sanction them, in order to provide the required levels of security to both individual users and society as a whole.

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