Fighting against Cybercrime at the National and International Levels

The increasing access to and subsequent use of technology has dramatically impacted the way in which people communicate and conduct their daily lives. The internet for example connects people and companies from opposite sides of the world quickly, easily, and relatively cheaply.

However, the internet and computer can be used in negative ways, which can have destructive impact on societies. Cybercrime is a threat against different organisations and people who computers connected to the internet and particularly mobile technology.

Cybercrime can be defined as a type of crime committed by cybercriminals who use a computer as a tool and the internet as a connection in order to reach a variety of objectives such as fraud, illegal downloading of files such as music and films, and spam mailing which is sending a phony e-mail in order to steal private information or access to a protected website (Cross, 2002:2). Cybercrime is a concern that has been attracting media attention since 1945, when the United Nations created an international cooperation and collective security network of 192 countries to cooperate and solve international problems and one of a growing issue is cybercrime (Portnoy and Goodman, 2009).

This article aims to analyze the problem moments of regulation and solving the problems of cybercrime in Ukraine, taking into account foreign experience.

 It is pointed out that there are problematic issues, namely: the lack of a separate legal act that would define the activities, functions and special competence of the bodies and departments of internal affairs to prevent cybercrime, fixing in the Law of Ukraine "On the basic principles of ensuring cybersecurity of Ukraine" created a legal framework to protect the public from information crimes, as well as the lack of standards that would establish responsibility for crimes in to protect your personal information, intercept foreign countries sensitive to public and private information.