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Techspectrum Case Study

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Should TechSpectrum file suit against the competitor? How about against Gomex? Why or why not?
“Distributed Denial of Service Attacks – Who is Legally Liable?” is an interesting article provided good insight to address the liability side of the equation. A per US computer crime statute, 18 USC 1030 (a)(5)(A) punishes whomever, “knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer.” Thus in the case of TechSpectrum, both the competitor and Gomex can be held accountable, since all the elements of the clause were fulfilled. However the biggest challenge for TechSpectrum will be to prove legally that these two parties were actually involved in conspiracy and had an agreement.

In the article “Attack of the bots” the author talks about the international law when dealing with bot attacks. A typical bot attack uses agents residing on compromised computers to co-ordinate and attack, if these computers are all over the world then it’s going to be difficult, to excise jurisdiction and prosecute. The same article also talks about the financial aspect of the attack. If …show more content…

http://www.securitycurrent.com/en/writers/mark-rasch/distributed-denial-of-service-attacks-who-is-legally-liable

Attack of the bot http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/botnet.html?pg=1&topic=botnet&topic_set= Should TechSpectrum sue the hired network experts who were unable to detect the issue? They had represented themselves as subject matter experts, however the agreements did not explicitly guarantee acorrect diagnosis.

What should TechSpectrum communicate publicly, if anything, about the incident, and why? Should it file anydocuments with any public regulatory or law enforcement agency on this matter?

Should TechSpectrum launch any cyber based retaliatory action against any party in this

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