Review article

Criminal-law Protection of Computer Systems, Programs and Data

Ivica Kokot

Abstract

A large majority of countries around the world have agreed in principle on the need to criminalise the most serious cyber attacks, although there are different approaches to this issue at international and national levels. The most important international instrument to combat attacks against information systems, the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime of 2001, has over time proven to be insufficient, hence the European Parliament and the Council adopted a Directive on attacks against information systems, whose aim is to remove these shortcomings. The Republic of Croatia transposed the provisions of the Convention and of the proposed Directive into its new criminal legislation, and assumed the commitments arising therefrom. Since the adoption of the new Criminal Code has presented a unique opportunity to systematically regulate this area of criminalisation, this paper gauges the success of the new provisions, using comparative and other methods.

Keywords

cybercrime; attacks against information systems; computer systems; computer programs; computer data

Hrčak ID:

141877

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/141877

Publication date:

25.2.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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