WHAT IS A HIGH-TECH CRIME?
The terms “computer crime” and “high-tech crime” conjure images of seedy computer hackers sitting in dark rooms hunched over their keyboards, attempting to crack into a system and wreak havoc on modern society. Hollywood fills the silver screens with computer super-villains who can tap into any system and instantly gain control of the national defense system or Wall Street. We have been conditioned to view computer crime as an attack on large organizations or governments, not private citizens or small businesses. Unfortunately, this is not generally the case. Computer fraud and computer crime include violations ranging from unauthorized access to data to malicious destruction of an organizations information resources by a disgruntled employee. Advanced technology is being used to either commit or further almost every conceivable type of criminal activity. The weapons needed to combat these crimes are education and constant awareness of new technology as it appears on the market. Anothe
