CFP96 Tutorial

Afternoon, March 27

Crime and Law in Cyberspace

DOJ/FBI Law-Enforcement Training Session

Instructors:

Review from the CFP96 Newsletter

(MCLE Credit Applied For)

This training session, designed for law-enforcement personnel, addresses the new area of crime in a digital environment and the degree to which law enforcement should be aware of such incidents as crime. It also discusses changes in Federal legislation as well as other legal considerations that may or may not be apparent when an electronic crime has been committed.

The tutorial will be presented by Peter Toren of the Computer Crime Unit of the Criminal Division of the US Department of Justice and Richard Ress who heads the FBI National Computer Crime Squad (NCCS) which investigates violations of the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986, and violations of criminal copyright and trademark law. Such crimes include intrusions of the public switched network (telephone networks), major computer network intrusions, network integrity violations, industrial espionage, pirated computer software, and other federal crimes where the computer is a major component of the offense.

Peter Toren is a trial attorney with the Computer Crime Unit of the Criminal Division of the US Department of Justice. His responsibilities include overseeing criminal investigations into alleged violations of the Computer Crime Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and of criminal copyright and trademark law. He prosecuted the first case involving the theft of trade secrets in the Western District of Michigan. He has written a law review article of the theft of trade secrets under federal law and has spoken frequently on these issues. In addition to a law degree, Mr. Toren has a Masters In International Affairs from Columbia University.

Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Richard A. Ress has been a Special Agent with the FBI for more than 13 years. During that time he served in the New York, Pittsburgh, and Newark field offices. In 1991 he was promoted to FBI Headquarters where he headed investigative programs areas within the Financial Crimes Section, Criminal Investigative Division. During SSA Ress's tenure as a Special Agent, he has addressed many of the FBI's criminal investigative programs to include White-Collar Crime, Organized Crime, Terrorism, Violent Crime, and Drugs. In October 1994, he was assigned as the Supervisor of the FBI's National Computer Crimes Squad, Washington Metropolitan Field Office. As such, SSA Ress oversees many of the FBI's computer crime investigations occurring both nationally and around the world.


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