Current State Legislation on Cyber Security Attacks

["Galloway, Dan" <Dan.Galloway () VITA VIRGINIA GOV>]

The Commonwealth of Virginia's current computer crime legislation covers
things such as falsified header/transmission information, spam, abuse of
email services, and identity theft. 

 

However, some of our state legislators now believe the newest wrinkles -
open proxies, replays, form mail, zombie networks, compromised systems
and viruses - may require a rewrite of the Virginia computer crimes
statute.

 

Does anyone have any statistics as to how much of a problem these types
of attacks are becoming in the college and university environment?

 

Also, do you by chance know if your state's current legislation covers
these types of attacks, or if not, if there is any movement on the part
of your state legislatures to make changes to your current legislation
to address them? 

 

Thanks! 

 

Yours,

  

Daniel C. Galloway, Jr.

James Madison University

Commonwealth Information Security Center (CISC)

Institute for Infrastructure and Information Assurance (3IA)

www.jmu.edu/iiia <http://www.jmu.edu/iiia> 

Richmond Office: (804) 371-5186

Harrisonburg Office: (540) 568-1691

 


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