Computer crime are include the unauthorized or illegal activity through computer as well as the theft of computer and other software and hardware. Many analyst believe that most of the small business will not take action to prevent the computer crime and they are more likely to be passive about the threat. This is due of the cost to implementing safeguard and the beside they also think that most of the hacker will most probably choose the big company to stole their business data. However, according to the Tim McCollum flatly stated in the National Business, there are more company are became the target of falling prey to hacker. And these illegal activity are mostly done by their own company employee. Beside, even a small business firm became the prey of the computer theft and hacker.

computer crime statistics in the United States are sobering. In 2000, a study appointed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) indicated that 85% of business respondents which included companies of all sizes and orientations that they had been victimized by at least one computer-related crime in the previous year. These crimes ranged from problems of epidemic proportions, such as virus infection, to less prevalent but still serious problems like Web site defacement, denial of service attacks, financial fraud, sabotage, and network break-ins. The financial losses associated with computer crime more than doubled between 1999 and 2000 to reach $265 million.




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