Appendix A. Examples of Cyber Crime Prosecutions
The following cases are from the U.S. Department of Justice. They represent the various forms of exploits covered in this book, but from a prosecutorial perspective.
U.S. Department of Justice Cases
California—Central District—United States v. Jay R. Echouafni et al. (Operation Cyberslam)
On August 25, 2004, a federal grand jury in the Central District of California indicted Jay R. Echouafni, Chief Executive Officer of Orbit Communication Corporation in Massachusetts, and five other individuals on multiple charges of conspiracy and causing damage to protected computers. Echouafni and a business partner allegedly hired computer hackers to launch relentless distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks ...
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