"LAW OFFICERS' BULLETIN" & "CYBERCRIME LAW REPORT" FROM PIKE & FISCHER.Pike & Fischer (Silver Spring, MD), a division of the Bureau of National Affairs BNA (The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.) is a Washington, D.C.-based publisher of news and information on legislation, regulations, and court decisions for professionals in business and government. It is the oldest wholly employee-owned company in the United States. (Washington, D.C.) has begun the publication of two new newsletters, including Law Officers' Bulletin and Cybercrime cybercrime also known as computer crime Any use of a computer as an instrument to further illegal ends, such as committing fraud, trafficking in child pornography and intellectual property, stealing identities, or violating privacy. Law Report. Published biweekly, Law Officers' Bulletin is targeted to police, criminal justice officials and counsel and is designed to cover the changing interpretations of constitutional and statutory law. Each issue of the newsletter will carry summaries of relevant decisions and trends from local, state and federal jurisdictions, a case study section examining "real-life" scenarios, and discussions of how different courts treat controversial issues and cases. An annual subscription costs $162. Cybercrime Law Report is also published biweekly and is designed to examine the changing nature and methodology of cybercrime, including hacks, Internet fraud A crime in which the perpetrator develops a scheme using one or more elements of the Internet to deprive a person of property or any interest, estate, or right by a false representation of a matter of fact, whether by providing misleading information or by concealment of , arrests, legislation, and relevant court decisions or agency policy. Pike & Fischer said the letter is wirtten to help readers stay informed and supply data "for all your cybercrime information needs." Editorial includes briefings on criminal law developments involving computers and the Internet, including: Internet fraud through auctions, securities, merchandise, pyramid schemes Pyramid Scheme An illegal investment scam based on a hierarchical setup that relies on new recruits' funding as the source of money, or so-called returns, to be provided to those earlier investors/recruits above them in the pyramid. and business opportunities; child protection and pornography; hacking, denial of services A condition in which a system can no longer respond to normal requests. See denial of service attack. attacks, data theft and destruction; cyber--stalking; identity theft; and, extortion extortion, in law, unlawful demanding or receiving by an officer, in his official capacity, of any property or money not legally due to him. Examples include requesting and accepting fees in excess of those allowed to him by statute or arresting a person and, with and sabotage. A charter annual subscription costs $265; a regular annual subscription will cost $315. |
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