Areas of Practice

Computer Crime

Computer crime is criminal activity that directly involves the use of a computer. Traditional crimes such as theft, fraud, counterfeiting, forgery, larceny, child pornography, embezzlement and solicitation of sex, to name a few, could be categorized as computer crime if the person used a computer as a tool in committing the crime. Other computer crimes more intrinsically involve computer functions, such as:

• Intrusions of the Public Switched Network (the telephone company)
• Major computer network intrusions
• Network integrity violations
• Privacy violations
• Industrial espionage
• Pirated computer software
• Other crimes where the computer is a major factor in committing the criminal offense