Computer Crime Is Increasing A report discussing the proposition that computer crime has increased dramatically over the last 10 years. Introduction Computer crime is generally defined as any crime accomplished through special knowledge of computer technology. Increasing instances of white-collar crime involve computers as more businesses automate and the information held by the computers becomes an important asset. Computers can also become objects of crime when they or their contents are damaged, for example when vandals …showed first 75 words of 1411 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1411 total…have resulted in losses of tens of millions to billions of dollars and all these crimes were facilitated by computers. Bibliography Bequai, August, Techno Crimes (1986). Mungo, Paul, and Clough, Bryan, Approaching Zero: The Extraordinary Underworld of! Hackers, Phreakers, Virus Writers, and Keyboard Criminals (1993). Norman, Adrian R. D., Computer Insecurity (1983). Parker, Donn B., Fighting Computer Crime (1983). Dodd S. Griffith, The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986: A Measured Response to a Growing Problem, 43 Vand. L. Rev. 453, 455 (1990).