rporations or government agencies because of the benefits they reap when they have successfully broken into the system and altered it in some way.
             3.1 What are the Categories of Computer Crime?
             Even though there are an enormous amount of computer crimes, they usually fall within one of the five major categories. They are sabotage or wreckage, theft of services, theft of data, software, or hardware, distribution of illegal materials (particularly child pornography), and financial crimes or fraudulent crimes (http://www2.utmb.edu). Each is discussed more in-depth below. Sabotage or wreckage is a criminal activity that leads to the partial or total destruction of the software or data contained on the computer. Most of these are done through virus writing that can damage both the hard drive and other programs within the computer as well. "The first documented virus was the 'Brain,' developed by two men in Pakistan in 1987 (Deangelis, 2000)." The creators did not intend for the virus to do any damage, but shortly after this occurrence, another virus arose at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, where the creator did intend to cause damage (Deangelis, 2000). According to Deangelis, the author of Cyber Crimes, there are several types of viruses, such as spiders, Trojan horses, rabbits, and worms. Spiders meltdown a computer's hard disk, while Trojan horses are viruses that are within a useful program, that when opened and used releases itself into the hardware of the computer. Rabbits make the computer perform many tasks endlessly, while worms just take up space. Ultimately, both the rabbit and the worm virus overload the system, causing a system crash.
             Theft of services has become a rising problem for many Internet-based companies. "So says a study by the Computer Security Institute, an association of computer-security professionals, and the FBI, which surveyed 643 computer-security experts at large corporations (many of them FO...