U.S federal laws you should learn about that pertain to computer crimes
Introduction Today, we are going to discuss a list of U.S federal laws, that you should probably be familiar with if you want to become a Information Security "pro" or a Security Administrator here in the U.S. I am going to reference the SANS document below [1] as your primary resource, but I am briefly going to summarize and bullet-list each U.S federal law. You may also need to know any of these laws, if you have to work with local law enforcement or other federal investigators such as the F.B.I and D.H.S CISA, if your company has suffered some sort of major data breach. Even if you ARE NOT a lawyer it does help to have a firm grasp of these laws in context and an understanding of what they mean. Let's begin: U.S Federal Computer Laws: Computer Fraud and Abuse Act - This law is used for charging Black Hat Hackers with crimes, which include DDoS attacks, data breaches, and using malicious code to damage computer networks. If the damage is more then $5,000 dollars t