Cybercrime dot com Business in Internet-related crime is booming. Electronic networks form the backbone of the new economy, information the commodity. Canadian business use of the Internet is nearly universal, at 95 per cent. In Brief Cybercrime is on the rise. Computer technology is surfacing in all types of criminal investigations.
Internet crime is relatively easy to commit and involves virtually no physical risk.
The information and tools needed to commit cybercrime are widely and freely available. Legal, jurisdictional, and organizational difficulties hamper law enforcement agencies' ability to investigate and prosecute cybercrime. It took the telephone 38 years to reach 50 million people, television 13 years, and the Internet a mere four. Computer processing power doubles every 18 months. Toddington, an Internet consultant based in British Columbia, is a former senior manager in the Information Technology industry with a solid background in policing.