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= FBI - The Cyber Crime Division =

-- Division of the FBI that contributes to the national effort of investigating high-tech crimes. These crimes include cyber-based terrorism, computer intrusions, online sexual exploitation, and major cyber frauds.

The key priorities of the Cyber Crime Division include:


 * **Computer Intrusions:** Protect against criminals who attempt to break into laptops, personal computers, and wireless devices by use of worms, viruses, spyware, malware and hacking
 * **Online Predators:** Works with //Innocent Images National Initiative// to help prevent the luring of children over the internet by cyber sexual predators and to catch those who prey on innocent children
 * **Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3):** The IC3 is mission is to act as a center which receives, develops, and refers criminal complaints that deal with cyber crime.This active cyber crime center is a partnership among the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA).
 * **Prevention of Intellectual Property Theft:** Top priority of the FBI’s Cyber Crime Division. It focuses mainly on the theft of secrets specific to that of a company, trade, or business. Also focuses on the violations/infringements on products that have a direct effect on the consumer.

= Laws Concerning Computer Crime =

Following are the laws concerning computer crime as issued by the United States Justice System:
(1) Cannot intentionally, without permission, access a computer that contains  (A) Financial information  (B) Information from the department or agencies of the United States (C) Information from any protected computer (2) Cannot intentionally cause the transmission of program, code, information, or code that purposefully causes damage to a protected computer  See the Code of Law Dealing with Computer Fraud and False State ments here: http://www.cybercrimelaw.net/US.html ALL LAWS ARE PUNISHABLE BY THE UNITED STATES COURT OF LAW "US." //Cyber Crime Law//. Cybercrimedata AS, n.d. Web. 13 Jan. 2011.

Bibliography: "FBI — Cyber Crime." //FBI — Homepage//. U.S. Federal Government, n.d. Web. 13 Jan. 2011. <http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/inve

"US." //Cyber Crime Law//. Cybercrimedata AS, n.d. Web. 13 Jan. 2011. <http://www.cybercrimelaw.net/US.h