“Love Bug” Case Shows Gaps in International Cooperation on Cybercrime(VIIIC)

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Thursday, June 1, 2000
Author: 
Bruce Zagaris
Volume: 
16
Issue: 
6
781
Abstract: 
On May 3, 2000, a virus occurred that crippled millions of computers worldwide and focused attention on the need to strengthen international cooperation and harmonization of law against cybercrime. Investigators said the virus was started from a personal computer in an apartment, located next to a fetid canal in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Manila, Philippines, where most people do not own computers or use the World Wide Web. Authorities focused on the apartment because the phone number there was captured by a caller-identification device at the local Internet service provider used as a distribution point for the virus...[more]