Urgent Problems in the Investigation of Computer Crimes at the Modern Stage

Abstract

The purpose of the publication is to study the legal nature of cyber security which is one of the global problems of the modern age. Any issue of the international and domestic policy is connected with it. At the modern stage of development, we observe a soaring role of the information sphere in the life of the society. Being the underlying factor, the information sphere is ever influencing on the political, defence, personal, and economic and international security. Due to this fact, an objective necessity in the reformation as the system of authorities engaged in the investigation and disclosure of cyber crimes and introduction of changes in the laws. The investigation methods are based on using such investigation methods as the analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction and analogy methods; from among the frequency-scientific methods, the formal legal method for historical, logic, dialectical techniques and way of scientific cognition. Results: the article defines the problems of security provision in the information sphere, as well as in the criminal and criminal procedure legislation related to the investigation of crimes on the Internet; in particular, such new types of crimes as the creation of virus programs, misappropriation of the ownership right to domain name administration. In addition, the lack of experts in this sphere of investigation, and the need for immediate response which is not provided by the laws is observed. Conclusion: According to the publication authors, the solving of these problems by making changes in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in terms of supplementing the qualification signs of blackmailing offenses, misappropriation, etc.; Administrative Offences Code of the Russian Federation; Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation in terms of creating the mechanism which allows an investigator (or investigation authority manager) to limit the use of the Internet (web-site) before establishing the committed crime circumstances.