Cooperation in fighting cybercrime
Date: October 25, 2006Source: COMPUTERWORLD
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How large is it now? By 2001, it had grown to approximately 18 members, and now it has grown to 45, including the addition of six new members in the last year. We have countries represented now from all continents [except for Antarctica]. There are a couple of countries from Africa who joined this past year and countries from South America.
What's the process for sharing data? In a case of either a cyberattack or a case where cyberevidence is involved, they can call another person on the contact list and that person can hopefully at least preserve the data while you take the more formal steps.
What sort of activities did you focus on at this year's conference? This time we provided some more substantive training, such as on botnets, and working on ways to tie the network closer together. There were people from the U.S. talking about various types of malicious code, and people from the U.K. -- the Serious Organized Crime Agency. Italy was running a training session. There were a lot of countries involved in doing the training. That worked very well.
In what countries do you see cybercrime growing? That shifts over time. There have been some Eastern European countries that have been really taking this seriously -- Romania and others who are identifying this as a problem. But I think it's going to continue to shift, depending on the type of crime you are talking about. That's why we are encouraging all countries to have the operational ability, like the 24/7 network.
With a constant churn of new online scams, how do you prioritize what cases you pursue? It's a triage process. We have to look at it as far as how serious the harm is, how fleeting the evidence is going to be, so it's really going to be a case by case basis.
What's the greatest threat right now? Phishing continues to evolve in different ways. Botnets still are the hot ticket. Zero-day vulnerabilities are certainly a concern.
Do you think hackers are paying attention to stronger law enforcement efforts and more prosecutions? I think there's more deterrence out there than there's ever been before because there are two things happening. One, people are seeing that cases do get prosecuted. Two, I think the public opinion has changed. Once hackers were regarded as playful villains they like to admire. Now when they see their own personal information, identity and money being taken from them, that attitude has changed.
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