CRIMINAL ACTS AGAINST SECURITY OF COMPUTER DATA

Abstract

The Criminal Code of the Republic of Serbia, in part twenty-seven, prescribes criminal offenses that have computer data for their protective object. Pursuant to this chapter, the following offenses are regulated: damage to computer data and programs, computer sabotage, creation and introduction of computer viruses, computer fraud, unauthorized access to a secure computer, computer network and electronic data processing, preventing and organizing access to a public computer network, unauthorized use of a computer or computer network, and making, procuring and providing other means of committing criminal offenses against computer data security. These criminal offenses were introduced into the criminal legislation of the Republic of Serbia in 2003, as amended by the CCS, as amended by the CCS, by adopting the decisions of the Draft CC of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia of February 2000. In 2005, the Republic of Serbia signed the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime. In accordance with the undertaken obligations, in order to combat computer crime, in addition to the provisions of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Serbia, the provisions of the Law on Organization and Competence of State Bodies for Combating High-Tech Crime, which, among other things, provide for the establishment of specialized departments in the prosecution and Police. The paper will analyze criminal offenses against the security of computer data, their differentiation and their specificities, which will draw attention to whether the Republic of Serbia has in its legislation adapted its provisions to the signed Convention on Cybercrime.