Legal Framework for Hacking: Methods, Penetration, and US Laws

This report provides an overview of the legal aspects of hacking, focusing on hacking methods and penetration testing strategies. It examines the interconnection between hacking and penetration strategies, highlighting how penetration testing helps assess system robustness, thereby influencing hacking ease. The report details several U.S. laws against hacking, including 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(1) through (b) and (c), explaining their stipulations and modifications over time. It further differentiates between legal (white hat) and illegal (black hat) hacking, emphasizing the ethical considerations from a Christian worldview perspective. The document concludes with a list of references used for the analysis. Desklib provides this document as a resource for students studying cybersecurity law and related topics.

LEGAL ASPECTS OF
HACKING METHOD

Hacking
Hacking is the methodology by which gaining access to a data set
without proper authentication is done. Hacking serves both positive and
negative purposes. Usage of the system by government serves the
positive aspect and imposters using this technology makes this a
negative aspect

Penetration strategy
Penetration testing strategy helps in understanding the interconnection
in between the security of the system and the documentation of the
entire project. This process helps in testing the weaknesses of the entire
system

Interlinking in between hacking and
penetration strategy
Penetration testing strategy is interlinked with hacking in the sense that
with the help of the penetration strategy, the robustness of the entire
data system can be calculated. With the help of this system hacking gets
easier

Laws against hacking
 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(1)
 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(2)
 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(3)
 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(4)
 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5)
 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(6)
 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(7)
 18 U.S.C. § 1030(b)
 18 U.S.C. § 1030(c)

Laws
18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(1)
It is stated that without prior concern of United States of America no
other country can invade their data base and in case anything of this
sort occurs United States can take safety measures. This rule has stayed
intact and no changes has been seen.

18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(2)
Financial data is taken into consideration for the procession of the project management
and this ensures the fact that the management of the entire process gets high
importance. Modification has been included in heavy amounts

18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(3)
Accessing of non public computing system without proper authentication
is taken into consideration in this law. This law states that any
organization suffering from this kind of issue can seek help from
government. Huge changes is noticed and the entire law is molded as
per the requirement of then project.

18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(4)
Accessing of computing system that are protected with security systems
without proper authentication. This law is applicable only in case the
transaction that is made is above $5,000 and the entire transaction is
made in 1 year. Not much changes are noticed in the entire law

18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5)
Accessing of programs and tasks that are stored in a computing system
without proper authentication is taken into consideration is law. The data
that are fetched from the program is the main concern of this law. This
law has been changing in a constant rate.

18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(6)
Defrauding traffic is one of the main concern of 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5).
This law also takes into consideration the aspect that the trafficking of
the data that might affect foreign transaction. Trafficking of data that
affects the government also falls under this law. This law has been
robust in nature and no such changes has occurred

18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(7)
This law is concerned with distortion of data that leads to financial risk of
an individual. Management of financial frauds and issues are the main
concern of 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(7). No such changes has been incurred in
recent times