By: Brandon Bailey

High-tech crime is always evolving. Ask Matt Parrella, the federal government's top tech prosecutor in the Bay Area, who was chasing crooked telemarketers in Nevada in the 1990s when he first noticed the con artists peddling bogus investments were moving online.

While he's also prosecuted accused killers and alleged steroid-peddlers, these days Parrella is head of the U.S. attorney's computer hacking and intellectual property unit in San Francisco, handling cases involving stolen trade secrets, counterfeit software and organized identity theft.

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