Archive Report
Archive Report
Scope of New-Style Crime
Growing Use and Misuse of Computers
The annals of crime are recording a new and growing type of criminal activity: crimes involving computers. Fraud, embezzlement, blackmail and other crimes committed by the manipulation or misuse of computers cost Americans more than $100-million a year, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.1 “Today business and government are more vulnerable to white-collar crime through use of computers than they were ever before or probably ever will be in the future,” according to Donn B. Parker, senior management systems consultant at SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute) in Menlo Park, Calif. Parker, an expert on computer fraud, said a basic reason for this vulnerability is “the lack of progress in recognizing the threat and taking ...