Computer Crime (Variety and Extent)
Computer have been used for most kinds of crime, including fraud,theft,embezzlement, burglary,sabotage,espionage,murde,and forgery, since the first cases were reported in 1958.One study of 1,500 computer crimes established that most of then were committed by trusted computer user within businesses-persons with the requisite skills,knowledge, access,and resource. Much of know computer crime has consisted of entering galse data into computers,which is simpler and safer than the complex process of writing a program to change data already in the computer. With the advent of personal computer to manipulate information and access computers by telephone, increasing numbers of crimes-mostly simple but costly electronic trespassing, copyrighted-information piracy, and vandalism-have been perpetrated by computer hobbyists, known as "hackers," who display a high level of technical expertise. Organized professional criminal have been attacking and using computer systems ads they find their old activities and environments being automated.
Their are no valid statistics about the extent of computer crime.Victims often resist reporting suspected cases,because they can lose more from embarrassment, lost reputation, litigation, and other consequential losses than from the acts themselves. Limited evidence indicates that the number of computers in business applications where crime has traditionally occurred. The largest record crimes involving insurance, banking, product inventories, and securities have resulted in losses of millions to billions of dollars-all facilitated by computer.
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