Computer crime

Computer crime includes several offences like the spy out of data, Computer fraud, the change of data, the sabotage of computers, private and official software piracy, fraud with debit cards and fraud of access authorization at communication services.

It is always the same: after every attack which is very spectacular, experts dun to be more diligence with the IT-safety and present scary cognitions about the unexceptional criminality of computers.

Barely an overview because of many safety warnings It is easier to say, than to do. Most Companies concentrate on their safety strategy on defence of the extern aggressors. Firewalls reduce the invasion unknown data, anti-virus-programs check documents, user have to verify their access authorization by a password. But with new technologies and business models the possibilities of attacks has radically changed and enlarged. Not only the spacious communication over the internet with hardly to control e-mail contact and extensive chat use is a difficulty for the safety. A major part of mobile communication, however, takes place in the fixed-line-network of the enterprises. Hackers and economy spies control already the transition from Laptops to the fixed-line environment.

Sheerly technical solutions are not enough. Sophisticated safety software is the main condition for fulfilling the basic demand for the IT safety, technical solutions are no more adequate since a long. To keep an eye on all entrapments in the IT infrastructure, enterprises need a multidisciplinary approach in the business perspective.

In plain language: The safety officer has the task to analyse the information regarding their relevance before taking action.

The Investigation office Stein dispose of IT specialists, who are able to analyse all at present used EDV-Systems about criminality aspects and make under certain presuppositions lost or defunct data usable again.

In case of manipulation and criminal action vestiges are frequently left behind in the EDV system, at internal finance- or warning economy systems of enterprises, at spying out and grapevine business secrets or the communication of several enlisted.