The Lure The True Story of How the Department of Justice Brought Down Two of The World's Most Dangerous Cyber Criminals

by Schroeder, Stephen C.

• ISBN13: 9781435457126
• ISBN10: 1435457129
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-14
• Publisher: Cengage Learning PTR

Summary

The Lure: The True Story of How the Department of Justice Brought Down Two of the World's Most Dangerous Cyber Criminals provides a case study of a large, complex, and highly technical prosecution of two Russian hackers. The materials presented offer a wealth of information that can be used by IT professionals, business managers, and academics who wish to learn how to protect systems from abuse, and who wish to respond appropriately to network incidents. In addition to its value as a training tool, THE LURE is also the true, riveting story of how two Russian hackers, who bragged that the laws in their country offered them no threat, and who mocked the inability of the FBI to catch them, were caught by an FBI lure designed to appeal to their egos and their greed. The story of the sting operation and subsequent trial is told for the first time here by the Department of Justice's attorney for the prosecution.

Author Biography

Steve Schroeder was a trial attorney and an Assistant States Attorney for the Department of Justice from 1974 until his retirement in July 2002. He specialized in white-collar crime and corruption prosecutions until 1992, when he prosecuted his first computer crime case, an intrusion into the Federal Court House network. From that point on, he became immersed in the growing field of computer crime cases. He became a charter member of the Department of Justice Computer and Telecommunications Coordinator program at its inception in 1995. He was a member of the national working group that advises the Attorney General on computer crime issues, and is a frequent lecturer on computer crime and electronic evidence. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at Seattle University School of Law, where he teaches Computer Crime.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Speakeasy

The Investigation Begins

The Lure

The Sting

in Custody

PayPal and eBay

A (not so) Brief Primer on National Security Investigations

eBay

Victim Banks

CTS (San Diego)

Verio and webcom.com

The Motion to Suppress and Preliminary Skirmishing

Preparing for Trial

The Trial

Aftermath

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