Types of crimes | Crimes where a computer network, software or hardware is the target (ransomware, viruses, worms, SQL injection, distributed denial of service attacks) | Crimes where the human or the human’s data is the target (romance scams, cyberbullying, hate speech, sexting, child pornography trafficking, trolling) |
Victims | Corporations and governments | Families and individuals |
Academic programs | Computer science, computer engineering, information technology | Criminology, psychology, sociology |
Intellectual focus | Applied science oriented – coding, networking and engineering strategies for making networks more secure | Basic science oriented – theoretical understandings of how and why crime is committed |