INTERNET SEARCHES FOR VETTING, INVESTIGATIONS, AND INTELLIGENCE
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therefore are stakeholders and decision makers in many types of
online crime. Only a minority of crimes detected by corporate
security staffs are reported to law enforcement.
• Personnel security—heretofore relying on the criminal justice
system to record prior criminal activity—faces the probability
that cybercriminals have no prior criminal record. Further, pri-
vate databases are more likely than public ones to hold evidence
of prior misbehavior, on- or ofine.
Probably a word about hackers and crackers is advisable here. Hackers
are people who have made themselves familiar with the way computers
and related devices work. Hackers can therefore use digital