Information criminality - a phenomenon met within the informatics field

TL;DR

The paper discusses the rise of information criminality, its legal responses, and the increasing vulnerabilities in computer networks due to rapid technological development and globalization.

Contribution

It analyzes the phenomenon of information criminality and reviews international legislative efforts to combat and regulate it in the context of evolving technology.

Findings

Information criminality has grown significantly over the last decade.

International legislation is evolving to address new cyber threats.

Rapid technological development increases system vulnerabilities.

Abstract

The phenomenon described as "information criminality" has taken significant proportions in the last decade, fact that carried out towards an international legislative frame, by implementing judicial forms, which might stop its occurrences. As matter of fact, the information criminality represents an information technology aiming towards fraud and prejudicing the users of informational data, by various means to infringement of the law. In this way, some international organizations have dealt with performing a legislative framework, able to punish the phenomenon of information criminality and implicitly to protect the users of computers. The transnational expansions, extremely fast as concerns the computer networks, and extending the access to these networks, by means of mobile telephony, have brought the increasing of these systems' vulnerability and the creating of opportunities of breaking the law. Considering these aspects, the world legislation is continuously changing, due to a more and more accelerated development of the information technology.