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The "National High-Tech Computer Crime Unit" is
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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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