2. It is hard to estimate the extent of computer crime because a lot of it goes undetected. And often times, what is found, is often unreported because businesses and other companies fear that they will lose their reputations.
3. The typical computer criminal is often times a trusted employee with no criminal record who is tempted by an opportunity, or a normal someone who happened to run across a loop hole or the such. The media stereotype is different as it portrays computer criminals as young, bright, technologically smart, white, middle-class, and male.
4. The most common type of computer crime is theft. It is committed by many people, and often times, those who are also thieves of tangible things. In order to stop this crime, many agencies such as the FBI are beginning to come down hard on these thieves.
6. There are four general types of programs that can be used for software damage, which are viruses, worms, trojan horses and spyware
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