Learning Outcomes
Within the framework of the course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the relationships between law and digital technologies.
- Understand contemporary legal issues arising from the widespread use of information and communication technologies.
- Possess significant knowledge of modern attacks on information systems and cybercrimes.
- Have the ability to critically analyze modern regulatory approaches to addressing cybercrimes.
- Understand the various dimensions of economic cybercrimes.
- Possess advanced knowledge of the evolving landscape of digital criminology and regulations regarding e-evidence.
- Understand the legal, socio-legal, and geopolitical dimensions of cybersecurity.
- Possess state-of-the-art specialized scientific knowledge in the subjects of the course as a basis for original thinking and research activities.
Syllabus
- Introduction to the concept of Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, and Digital Forensics – Introduction to basic concepts.
- International Environment and Framework: Convention on Cybercrime, Union Framework (NIS Directives 1/2, Cybersecurity Act, etc.) – Overview of the Greek regulatory framework governing cybercrime/electronic crime.
- Unauthorized access to information systems/attacks on information systems (e.g., disruption of operation): Legal framework – Forms of attacks (Legal dimension, reference to attack forms).
- Unauthorized access to data/data tampering (Legal dimension, reference to attack forms).
- Crimes against privacy/freedom of communications and security (electronic) communications (Legal dimension, reference to attack forms).
- Economic Cybercrime: Digital fraud/computer fraud. Social engineering as a method of fraud.
- Economic Cybercrime: Cryptocurrencies and criminal law.
- Unfair and illegal content on the Internet (child pornography/hate speech, etc.) – Issues regarding the detection of unfair and illegal content on the Internet.
- Cybercrime: Jurisdiction, Judicial cooperation – Place of the crime. Concept and regulation of e-evidence.
- Digital Forensic Investigation: Preconditions – Technical/legal – Procedural requirements, methodology issues, applications, and tools.
- Digital Forensic Investigation: Visit to/lectures from Cybercrime Prosecution Officials, Directorate of Cybercrime Investigations.
- Concepts and legal dimension/legal-political/geopolitical dimension of Cybersecurity. Evolution and Policies for Cybersecurity.
- Regulatory framework and implementation issues (NIS Directive 2/Cybersecurity Act) – Implementation bodies – Implementation issues.
Recommended Readings
- Iglezakis I (ed.), Jougleux Ph., Mitrou L., Synodinou T., “The Legal Regulation of Cyber Attacks”, Kluwer 2020