Welcome to ERA – Academy of European Law

About the project

This conference is part of a project sponsored by the European Commission and consisting of a series of six events in Madrid, Lisbon, Vilnius, London, Sofia and Stockholm.
Each event in “Fighting cybercrime: series of intensive seminars for EU legal practitioners” will have a specific focus.

Contents

This conference will provide a platform to debate and assess how EU legislation and other European and international instruments are addressing large-scale cyber attacks and other threats posed by methods such as botnets, i.e. networks of compromised computers infected by malicious software and remotely controlled by a “botmaster”. The event will also discuss possible future scenarios in the fight against cybercrime such as the possible restrictions on the use of the internet for those who commit cybercrime offences and the confiscation of the proceeds of crime in cyberspace.

Key topics

• Modus procedendi and consequences in the real world of Stuxnet and other recent malware
• New initiatives and tools at European and international level
• Activities of the United Nations
• Internet restrictions for cybercriminals
• Confiscation of the proceeds of cybercrime

Who should attend?

Judges, prosecutors, police officers, defence lawyers, civil servants, policymakers and representatives of the internet industry