Working out of the methodology bases for investigation of crimes committed by computer and network technologies: actual problems, prospects and trends

In the given article the author tries to analyze cybercrime as a relatively new and little-investigated social and legal phenomenon. The author considers a counteraction to cybercrime to be an international challenge because measures for prevention, exposure and investigation of crimes, committed with using of modern information technologies, cannot be effective on the national level due to transnational and across-the-border character of Internet. The author conducted scientific analysis of modern cybercrime investigation and made recommendations for raising effectiveness of this activity. He suggests to apply the modern information technologies to the scientific recourses of national criminalistics, in general and to use them for improving the effectiveness in combating crimes committed with using of computer and net possibilities, in particular.