BreachBytes

Two big legal cases have made headlines in the cybercrime arena over the last week. First, Reuters reported on 1/3/08 that the Justice department has indicted Alan Ralsky, known as the “spam king”, under charges that he orchestrated a stock spamming operation. Reuters, in a 1/8/08 article, is also reporting on a case where a system administrator was hit for $81K in fines and 30 months in prison for unleashing a classic logic bomb on his former employers servers.

Maybe this is just a coincidence but does this signal a shift towards holding criminals accountable for cybercrime? I personally would like to think so since a huge reason that cybercrime is so rampant is due to the U.S. legal system’s inability to evolve and adapt in the prosecution of crimes that take place on or using the Internet.

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