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The "National High-Tech
Computer Crime Unit" is now "The
Serious Organized Crime Agency"
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What is High-Tech
Crime?
With the technological advances that the
world has seen over the past few years, it is not surprising
that High-Tech Crime is on the up rise. But, what is high-tech
crime? In essence, high-tech crime refers to those crimes that
are being conducted using the internet or the help of a
computer. These crimes are also referred to as cyber crimes,
computer crimes and technological crimes, depending on the area
in which they are being committed. With newer and more
intelligent computer systems come even more sophisticated
opportunities for those less than honest people to commit
traditional crimes in ways that are more non-traditional.
Typically, high-tech crimes fall into two very distinct
categories.
 The first high-tech crime category includes
those traditional crimes that are being committed by using
computers. This category includes any crimes that are
computer assisted such as distributing child pornography,
selling or purchasing illegal drugs, laundering money,
gambling illegally, distributing hate propaganda or
publications, committing any type of internet fraud and
using any technology to store, hide or communicate with
criminal and/or terrorist activities or associations.
It goes without saying that with new technologies also comes
new opportunities for criminals to create crimes and abuses.
The second high-tech crime category includes those crimes that
are actually directed toward a computer or computer network.
This is called pure high-tech crime and includes any offenses
like unauthorized use of a computer system such as hacking into
another computer or any unauthorized use or distribution of
data. Denial of service attacks and distributing computer
viruses falls into this second category as well.
High-tech crime has become a growing problem in virtually every
country in the world. In the past, those who were committing
these crimes typically stuck to crimes against computers
themselves, which required a specific knowledge of information
and data systems. Time and patience were also requirements in
the earlier days of high-tech crimes as it took time to
identify the computers and/or networks vulnerabilities in order
to transmit viruses or hack into these systems. Computer
hacking, internet fraud, denial of service attacks and
transmissions of viruses were the traditional methods of
committing high-tech crimes. These forms of crimes alone are
estimated to cost more than one trillion dollars to the worlds
economy each year in damage to computer equipment and data and
loss of business revenues.
The advances in technology, including automated hacking tools,
have made these crimes much easier to commit today. Hackers now
have the ability to mount remote and anonymous attacks over the
internet. Criminals and terrorists have the ability to send
emails through a variety of different internet services
providers around the world, giving them a hidden quality and
making it much harder for authorities to find them.
Authorities around the world are working to increase their
expertise and to develop tools that will effectively fight
these high-tech crimes. Many countries have developed
initiatives to combat the complexities of these crimes and to
attempt to bring them to an
end.
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