Category Archives: Cyber Crimes
Be Careful – Feds Targeting Cryptocurrency Fraud
The federal government is undertaking a review of new kinds of financial fraud. Cryptocurrency is a general term for digital, cloud-based currency which fluctuates…
Federal Cybercrime Charges: How Texans Can Fight Back
October was National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), which, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is “an annual campaign to raise awareness…
Texas Court Finds No Expectation of Privacy in Cell Phone Records, Location Data
On April 12, 2017, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that Article I, Section 9 of the Texas Constitution does not provide broader…
Broad Guidelines for Computer Crimes Give Power to Prosecutors
Computer crimes arrived on the legal landscape in the early 1980s. Law enforcement had relatively few criminal statutes under which to pursue investigations involving…
FBI Investigating Hack of Democratic National Committee
The computer network of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) was recently hacked into by cyber criminals. National media outlets have reported that federal officials…
Federal Judge Tosses Stingray, Cell Phone Tracking, Evidence Out of Court
Police love them. They are called Stingrays—surveillance devices that can deceive a criminal suspect’s cell phone into revealing its location. The ACLU has combined…
The Digital War: The Right to Privacy Versus Law Enforcement’s Need to Know
Let us make one thing clear: law enforcement does not, nor will it ever, respect an individual’s right to privacy. The police in this…
A Guide to Cyber Crime Laws
The U.S. Justice Department prosecutes computer crimes, more commonly known as cybercrime, under three different sections of federal law. First, there is the Computer Fraud and…
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