Hacking for Lawyers

Hacking can appear highly technical, but legal professionals do not need to become cybersecurity experts to understand its basic concepts.
Hacking for Lawyers is a short introductory guide written for lawyers, law students, and other legal professionals who want to understand hacking from a legal perspective without reading a lengthy technical textbook.

Using clear and simple language, the book introduces selected topics that may arise in hacking-related cases, investigations, and legal discussions. It explains the basic meaning of hacking and unauthorised access, the environment in which hacking may take place, common hacking methods, relevant legal considerations, the investigation process, and some of the main challenges faced in cybercrime cases.

Topics include:

• Hacking, cyberattacks, cybercrime, and different types of hackers
• Virtual machines, Kali Linux, the command-line interface, VPNs, Tor, and proxies
• Social engineering, credential attacks, malware-based attacks, web attacks, and network attacks
• Criminal and civil liability, national cybercrime laws, and relevant case studies
• Digital evidence, internal investigations, and law-enforcement involvement
• International cooperation, jurisdiction, attribution, extradition, privacy and encryption, and legal defences