21 June 2008

OECD - Cybercrime risk to the internet economy

(vnuent.com)
Government ministers from across the world have issued a call for greater vigilance against cybercrime at a meeting on the future of the internet economy. The Seoul Declaration came at the end of a two day ministerial conference on the future of the web in the South Korean capital hosted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). OECD member countries, the European Community and ministers from Chile, Egypt, Estonia, India, Indonesia, Israel, Latvia, Senegal and Slovenia affirmed the declaration. Participants agreed on the need for governments to work closely with business, civil society and technical experts on policies that promote competition, empower and protect consumers, and expand internet access and use worldwide. See also Chair's Summary, Shaping policies for the future of the Internet economy and Annexes.

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UK - Flirty texting could land Scots in jail for 10 years

(OUT-LAW News)
Scots face up to 10 years in jail for sending text messages or emails with sexual content. Scotland's just-published Sexual Offences Bill contains stiff penalties for any sexual messages whose intent is to humiliate the recipient. The Bill creates a new offence of communicating indecently. The offence will be committed if someone sends an unsolicited text message to someone else which a court finds was designed to give the sender sexual gratification or to humiliate, distress or alarm the receiver.

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15 June 2008

FR - Les FAI devront filtrer les sites pédopornographiques

(ZDNet.fr)
La ministre de l'Intérieur Michèle Alliot-Marie veut accélérer la lutte contre la pédopornographie sur internet. Dans un discours prononcé dans le cadre des Assises du numérique, elle a indiqué avoir trouvé un terrain d'entente avec les opérateurs télécoms et les fournisseurs d'accès internet (FAI) : « Nous nous sommes mis d'accord, l'accès aux sites à caractère pédopornographique sera bloqué en France. » Voir Allocution de Michèle ALLIOT-MARIE, Ministre de l'Intérieur, de l'Outre-Mer et des Collectivités Territoriales, lors de l'ouverture des Assises du Numérique - Atelier Lutte contre la cybercriminalité, le mardi 10 juin 2008. voir aussi La France vise un verrouillage de l'accès aux sites pédophiles avant 2009 (Le Monde). La France devrait mettre en place un système de blocage de l'accès aux sites pédopornographiques sur internet avant la fin 2008, a annoncé la secrétaire d'Etat française à la Famille, Nadine Morano, lors d'une visite d'étude en Norvège, pays pionnier en la matière.

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12 June 2008

FR - French to block porn, terror, hate web sites

(Reuters)
The French state and Internet service providers have struck a deal to block sites carrying child pornography or content linked to terrorism or racial hatred, Interior Minister Michel Alliot-Marie announced. The plan, part of a larger effort to fight cybercriminality, is to go into effect in September when a "black list" will be built up based on input from Internet users who signal sites dealing with the offensive material.

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09 May 2008

UK - Possession of sexually violent images made a criminal offence

(BBC)
Possession of sexually violent images will now be punishable by up to three years in jail. The ban is part of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill. The bill had its final reading on Thursday where it received Royal Assent.

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18 April 2008

UK - People are mugs over identity theft

(Silicon News)
Social network data makes life too easy for fraudsters. Identity theft is rife. Perhaps it's time individuals took a leaf out of business's book and adopted a personal information policy that will make life harder for criminals.

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02 March 2008

FR - French Police extends the Internet blacklist

(EDRI-gram)
French Internal Affairs Minister, Michèle Alliot-Marie, announced new measures to fight against cybercrime, including extending the websites blacklist and pushing for computer online investigations, without the permission of the country of the hosting company. The Minister visited the Cybercrime Brigade and announced a new "best practices chart" with the operators in order to block websites. According to the statements, the Norwegian model was taken into consideration, meaning the creation of a list with websites not only with child pornography information, but also the ones with information on making explosives or chemical weapons, terrorist propaganda and racial hate speech.

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24 February 2008

US - Study Debunks 'Internet Predator' Stereotypes

(AHN)
Contrary to popular belief, Internet sex predators target teenagers and not young kids, cites a new study. Also, a majority of Internet sex predators are not adults who pose as another youth to victimize children by enticing them to meet then abducting or forcibly raping them. Only 5 percent of online offenders pretended to be teenagers. The study, which was based on three surveys, revealed that Internet sex offenders rarely use force but instead gain the trust and confidence of their victims before seducing them into sexual relationships. The victims of these predators are mostly teenagers who mistake the attention for love. According to the researchers, young people who were most vulnerable to online sex offenders had histories of sexual or physical abuse, family problems, and are adventurous on the Internet or have most likely talked online about sex. The study, 'Online Predators and Their Victims: Myths, Realities, and Implications for Prevention and Treatment' was conducted by Janis Wolak, JD, David Finkelhor, PhD, Kimberly Mitchell, PhD and Michele Ybarra, PhD, at the Crimes against Children Research Center, University of New Hampshire and published in the American Psychologist.

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10 February 2008

EU / Russia - pedopornography on the Internet

(Vice-President Franco Frattii)
Many people have brought to my attention the existence of a provider, Russian Business Network (RBN), which, it would seem, is based in Russia. The provider hosts hundreds of paedo-pornographic sites. Many citizens have written to me asking for action to be taken to put a stop to this plague. I will personally write to the Russian authorities citing the sincere friendship and understanding that has been established between us in the past. see Shadowy Russian Firm Seen as Conduit for Cybercrime (Washington Post) by Brian Krebs.

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30 January 2008

Hackers Rig Google to Deliver Malware

(PC World)
Hackers loaded up more than 40,000 Web pages with malicious software and thousands of common search terms. They then employed an automated network of malware-infected computers--known as a botnet--to link to those sites in blog-comment spam and other places. The mentions elevated the position of the poisoned sites in search results, often to the first page.

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02 January 2008

Boom times for hi-tech criminals

(BBC)
Starting a career as a cyber criminal got much easier in 2007. So say security experts looking back on 12 months in which hi-tech gangs took control of the net's underground. The economy supporting these groups has matured so much that now everything from virus-writing kits to spam-spewing zombies are available for rent or hire.

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01 January 2008

DE - Ermittler kritisieren Kinderporno-Operation als Flop

(Spiegel)
Für zahlreiche Verdächtige im angeblich bisher größten Kinderpornografie-Fall in Deutschland werden die Ermittlungen folgenlos bleiben. Viele der 12.000 verdächtigten Internet-Nutzer seien nur zufällig auf eine Kinderporno-Website geraten. Mehrere Ermittler kritisieren die Aktion.

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16 December 2007

ES - Arrests in Spain child porn raids

(BBC)
Sixty-three people have been arrested in Spain on suspicion of involvement with child pornography, following raids across the country, officials say. Police said large amounts of computer-based "paedophile material" had been seized as the raids were executed over more than 10 days. They were the culmination of a two-year investigation focused on internet users in Spain using foreign websites

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01 December 2007

EU - Member States implement EU legislation to combat the sexual exploitation of children and child pornography

(RAPID)
The European Commission has approved the report on the implementation by Member States of the Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA of 22 December 2003 on combating the sexual exploitation of children and child pornography. This report finds that most Member States have criminalised sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and child pornography on the Internet, But Member States can still do more. See also REPORT from the Commission on the implementation of the COUNCIL FRAMEWORK DECISION on combating the sexual exploitation of children and child pornography.

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Hackers hijack web search results

(BBC)
A huge campaign to poison web searches and trick people into visiting malicious websites has been thwarted. The booby-trapped websites came up in search results for search terms such as "Christmas gifts" and "hospice". Windows users falling for the trick risked having their machine hijacked and personal information plundered. The criminals poisoned search results using thousands of domains set up to convince search index software they were serious sources of information.

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NZ - Arrests made in botnet crackdown

(BBC)
Police in New Zealand have questioned a teenager believed to be the ringleader of an international cyber-crime group. The group is alleged to have infiltrated more than one million computers and skimmed millions of dollars from people's bank accounts. The teenager, who is 18, cannot be named for legal reasons but was known by an alias as "Akill". He was detained as part of an FBI crackdown on hi-tech criminals who run botnets - networks of hijacked PCs.

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20 November 2007

UK - Campaigners hit by decryption law

(BBC)
Animal rights activists are thought to be the first Britons to be asked to hand over to the police keys to data encrypted on their computers. The request for the keys is being made under the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA). Police analysing machines seized during raids on activist's homes carried out in May have asked for the keys. The activists could face jail if they do not comply and snub a further formal request to hand over the keys.

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17 November 2007

Latin America: New 'Cyber Paradise' for Paedophiles and Racists?

(IPS)
The crackdown in eastern Europe and the United States on websites posting racist content or child pornography could expose Latin America to the risk of becoming a new "cyber paradise" for on-line paedophilia and racism, experts say. The warning was sounded at the United Nations-sponsored Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Rio de Janeiro, which has been discussing issues like security, access and diversity on the net. Many of the websites bearing illegal and harmful content were hosted by the Czech Republic. But after the clampdown they migrated to countries like Panama, according to Thiago Tavares, head of the non-governmental organisation (NGO) SaferNet Brasil.

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NL - Virtual theft' leads to arrest

(BBC)
A Dutch teenager has been arrested for allegedly stealing virtual furniture from "rooms" in Habbo Hotel, a 3D social networking website. The 17-year-old is accused of stealing 4,000 euros (£2,840) worth of virtual furniture, bought with real money. Five 15-year-olds have also been questioned by police, who were contacted by the website's owners.

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10 November 2007

Europe child porn probe nets 92

(BBC)
An investigation into a Europe-wide child pornography network has led to 92 arrests across eight countries, prosecutors say. The network made videos of children being abused and sold them to 2,500 customers in 19 countries, says the European police force, Europol. The films were mainly produced in Ukraine, Belgium and the Netherlands, and most of the victims were Ukrainian.

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06 November 2007

EU - Fight against terrorism

(RAPID)
The Commission has adopted a new package of proposals aimed at improving the EU?s capabilities in the fight against terrorism. The package contains a series of proposals dealing with the criminalization of terrorist training, recruitment and public provocation to commit terrorist offences, the prevention of the use of explosives by terrorists and the use of airline passenger information in law enforcement investigations. It also contains a report on the mplementation of the Framework Decision on combating terrorism. The Commission proposes amending the Framework Decision to make public provocation to commit a terrorist offence, recruitment and training for terrorism punishable behaviour, also when committed through the Internet.

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01 November 2007

UK - Data breaches misunderstood by gov't, say Lords

(Silicon News)
The government has failed to understand the threat to the continued growth of the internet posed by cyber crime, according to the influential House of Lords Science and Technology Committee.

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28 October 2007

JP - Japanese Poll: 87% Accept Manga Child Porn Regulation

(Anime News Network)
The Japanese government's Cabinet Office issued the results of its Special Opinion Poll on Harmful Materials, in which 86.5% of those who responded said that manga and art should be subject to regulation for child pornography, if they had to decide. 90.9% said that "harmful materials" on the Internet should be regulated, if they had to decide. The current child pornography laws in Japan do not regulate manga and art that depict children who are not real, or "virtual child pornography."

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CoE - 23 States sign Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

(CoE)
Twenty-three Council of Europe member states signed the Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (CETS n° 201), which represents a major step in the prevention of sexual offences against children, the prosecution of perpetrators and the protection of victims. Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey signed the convention at the beginning of the 28th Conference of the European Ministers of Justice in Lanzarote. The convention will enter into force once it has been ratified by five states. The convention also criminalises the use of the new technologies ? the internet in particular ? to sexually harm or abuse children, for example by "grooming", an increasingly worrying phenomenon of children being sexually harmed after meeting adults they have previously encountered in internet chat rooms or game sites.

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20 October 2007

TH - Thais arrest paedophile suspect

(BBC)
A Canadian paedophile suspect who was the subject of a global manhunt has been arrested in Thailand. Police tracked down 32-year-old teacher Christopher Paul Neil in north-east Thailand. They suspect him of appearing in 200 online images of child abuse. Interpol had appealed for help after experts unscrambled digitally-distorted photos of the suspect.

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CZ - Czech president endorses bill punishing child porno possession

(ceskenoviny.cz)
Czech President Vaclav Klaus has signed a bill stipulating punishment for the possession of child pornography into law. Under the bill that was passed by the Chamber of Deputies in September people will face up to two years in prison for "keeping photographic, film, computer, electronic or other pornographic material made with children as models or for abusing children in any other way."

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16 October 2007

Thai police name suspected web paedophile

(Guardian)
A suspected paedophile pictured on websites sexually abusing young boys has been identified as a 32-year-old Canadian. Thai police named him as Christopher Paul Neil after a worldwide appeal by Interpol using reconstructed images of his face.

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09 October 2007

Interpol in rare sex abuse appeal

(BBC)
Interpol has launched an unprecedented global public appeal to help identify a man shown sexually abusing children in photographs posted on the internet. The man appears in about 200 images depicting the abuse of 12 boys, which police said were taken in Vietnam and Cambodia, possibly in 2002 and 2003. The pictures had been digitally altered but police computer specialists have produced identifiable images. Interpol says the man is a danger to children while he remains at large.

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30 September 2007

US - Defense Lawyers Cringe at MediaDefender's Child-Porn Patrol Plans

(Wired)
New York state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is raising the eyebrows of defense attorneys over his recently exposed plans to pay the controversial anti-piracy firm MediaDefender to gather evidence for child-porn prosecutions.

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29 September 2007

US / UK - IWF intelligence leads to rescue and arrest

(Press Realse)
IWF intelligence lead to rescue of three prepubescent children being sexually abused and their abuser being sentenced to 60 years in prison. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) provided intelligence to Cybertipline, its sister Hotline in the US, regarding a website which appeared to be hosted in the US and contained images of children being sexually abused.

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12 September 2007

EU - Considers ban on using Internet to distribute bomb-making instructions

(Arstechnica)
In a presentation before the European Parliament last week, EU security commissioner Franco Frattini outlined a new set of anti-terror proposals, including plans for a Europol explosives database, airplane passenger list databases, and legislation that would criminalize publication of bomb-making instructions on the Internet. The proposals are based on the findings of a research group that included law enforcement officials and experts from private industry.

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09 September 2007

CZ - Czech Bill On Child Porn Faces Resistance

(Washington Post)
When Austrian authorities announced that they had uncovered an online child pornography ring, pedophiles around the world suddenly became potential targets of criminal investigations - but not the ring's 63 customers in the Czech Republic, where downloading and possessing such images is not a crime. Creating and selling child pornography is illegal in the Czech Republic. But the law does not extend to people who obtain it. Despite repeated calls for legislation in the nearly 20 years since communism's demise, this country of 10.2 million people remains the most prominent haven for consumers of child pornography in the 27-member European Union. Slovenia, a tiny Balkan nation of 2 million people, is the only other E.U. country not to have outlawed possession of the material, according to an Interpol Web site that summarizes national laws.

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UK - Police break into peer-to-peer paedophile chat-room

(Guardian )
Timothy Cox was a quiet, clean-cut 27-year-old who worked for his small family brewery in rural Suffolk. He was also 'the son of god' - the mastermind of a global paedophile ring. Mark Townsend investigates

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29 August 2007

G-8 - Ministers' Declaration: Reinforcing the International Fight Against Child Pornography

(G-8 Justice and Home Affairs Ministers)
May 24th, 2007 Child pornography grievously harms all children: it harms the child who is sexually assaulted in the making of the image; the same child is re-victimized every time that image is viewed; and it harms all children because it portrays them as a class of objects for sexual exploitation. We categorically denounce those who sexually exploit children by producing images of their sexual abuse and by distributing or collecting such images. Because no child should be victimized in this horrific way, today we pledge to redouble our efforts to enforce the international fight against child pornography.

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24 August 2007

UK - Briton held over wireless broadband 'theft'

(Reuters)
A 39-year-old Briton has been arrested on suspicion of using someone else's wireless Internet connection without permission, police said on Wednesday. Officers spotted the man using a laptop as he sat on a wall outside a house in Chiswick, West London. He told officers he had browsed the Internet via an unsecured broadband link from a nearby house, Scotland Yard said. He was arrested and later released on police bail to November 11 pending further inquiries. See also Police: Wi-Fi arrest not part of a crackdown (ZDNet UK).

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14 August 2007

UK - Honesty the best online policy

(BBC News)
Columnist Bill Thompson says firms should tell customers when their computer security has been breached. UK organisations have no legal duty to tell if personal data has been compromised. The situation may change, if the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology has its way. They have spent the last year looking at internet security and how it affects us all and they published their final report, called Personal Internet Security.

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13 August 2007

Facebook's code leak raises fears of fraud

(Guardian)
Experts are warning internet users to be more careful with their private information after secret code from the popular social-networking site Facebook was published on the internet. This is the first time that some of the site's secret operational code has been made public. Although it does not allow hackers to access private information directly, it could help criminals close in on personal data, according to one expert.

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10 August 2007

UK - Government 'must act on e-crime'

(RAPID)
The government must do more to protect internet users from the threat of e-crime, says a House of Lords report. The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee said the internet was now "the playground of criminals". The report criticised the government's current "Wild West" approach of leaving internet security up to the individual as "inefficient and unrealistic". See Personal Internet Security. Witnesses from the European Commission, including Commissioner Viviane Reding, gave evidence: see Vol II - Evidence.

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06 August 2007

UK - Study: Tech for tracking offenders is flawed

(Kablenet.com)
A study commissioned by the Ministry of Justice has revealed that the signal for satellite technology for tracking offenders could be lost and that offenders could remove their ankle tags and leave them behind. The report says that, in ideal conditions, the technology is capable of finding the exact location of a tracked offender. But the signal could be distorted if an offender enters a building or a street with tall structures.

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04 August 2007

US - Democrats to push new Net sex-predator laws

(CNET News.com)
Expect a new push in Congress this fall for laws aimed at keeping sexual predators off the likes of MySpace.com and elevating fines on Internet service providers that don't report child pornography.

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MySpace deletes 29,000 sex offenders

(Reuters)
Popular Internet social network MySpace has detected and deleted 29,000 convicted sex offenders on its service, more than four times the figure it had initially reported. The company, owned by media conglomerate News Corp., said in May it had deleted about 7,000 user profiles that belonged to convicted offenders. MySpace attracts about 60 million unique visitors monthly in the United States.

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31 July 2007

US - New Scrutiny for Facebook Over Predators

(New York Times)
Facebook, the online social network, has stolen some of MySpace's momentum with users and the news media. Now, it is being subjected to the same accusations that it does not do enough to keep sexual predators off its site. Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut's attorney general, said that investigators in his state were looking into "three or more" cases of convicted sex offenders who had registered on Facebook and had "also found inappropriate images and content" on the service. The inquiry continues, he said, and state officials have contacted Facebook and asked it to remove the profiles.

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23 July 2007

CoE- A new Council of Europe Convention to protect children against sexual exploitation and abuse

(Press Release)
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has adopted the Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse, which represents a major advance in this field. This new Convention is the first instrument to establish the various forms of sexual abuse of children as criminal offences, including such abuse committed in the home or family, with the use of force, coercion or threats. In addition to the offences traditionally committed in this field - sexual abuse, child prostitution, child pornography, children's forced participation in pornographic performances - the text also addresses the issue of "grooming" of children for sexual purposes and "sex tourism". The Convention will be opened for signature at the Conference of European Ministers of Justice in Lanzarote on 25 and 26 October this year. See The full text of the Convention and the explanatory report

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05 July 2007

UK - New law will criminalise possession of extreme porn

(OUT-LAW.com)
The Government has published a new law which will criminalise extreme pornography. The possession of extreme pornography will be punishable by up to three years in jail. Material covered will include necrophilia, bestiality and violence that is life threatening or likely to result in serious injury to the anus, breasts or genitals. Such material has been illegal to publish until now under the Obscene Publications Act. The material has not been illegal to view or possess, though; the new law will make possession a crime. Images of child pornography are already illegal to view or to possess

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UK - The shambles over cybercrime

(Guardian)
The National High Tech Crime Unit, set up in April 2001 in response to a perception that e-crime was on the rise, was absorbed a year ago into the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca). Soca took over this role because it was felt that financial e-crime was increasingly the preserve of organised crime, its principal area of responsibility. But the result, say people in both the banking and computer security industries, is a shambles.

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24 June 2007

CoE -Protection of children against sexual exploitation and abuse

(Council of Europe)
The sixth meeting of the Committee of Experts on the protection of children against sexual exploitation and abuse (PC-ES) took place at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, from 26 to 30 March 2007. The Committee adopted the draft Convention and its Explanatory Report. See Draft Convention on the protection of children against sexual exploitation and sexual abuse and Draft explanatory report. See European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC) 56th Plenary Session of 18-22 June 2007. See also Council of Europe programme for the promotion of children's rights and the protection of children from violence.

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19 June 2007

UK - Paedophile ring smashed by police

(BBC)
Police have smashed a global child abuse network which was co-ordinated through a UK-based internet site. Global agencies, led by UK investigators, examined more than 700 suspects, including 200 in the UK.

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15 June 2007

US - MySpace Database Search Starts Yielding Sex Offender Busts

(Wired)
Blevins_patrick Texas police have arrested six sex offenders who weren't supposed to be using the internet under the terms of their probation or parole, but who allegedly surfaced in MySpace's database search. A seventh MySpace user was picked up for failing to register as a sex offender.

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10 June 2007

ITU Announces Plan to Curb Cybercrime

(ITU)
The ITU announces an ambitious two-year plan to curb cybercrime. Cybercrime takes several forms, from breaching network security, financial fraud, invasion of privacy and identity theft to virus attacks, spam or online child pornography. Against this background, ITU Secretary-General Dr Hamadoun Touré set out a comprehensive Global Cybersecurity Agenda to tackle the issue within a framework of international cooperation.

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03 June 2007

Does Virtual Reality Need a Sheriff?

(Washington Post)
Second Life is intended only for adults, and about 15 percent of the properties on the site have been voluntarily flagged by their residents as having mature material. Though some is relatively innocent, in some locations avatars act out drug use, child abuse, rape and various forms of sadomasochism. The question of what is criminal in virtual reality is complicated by disagreements among countries over what is legal even in real life. For example, virtual renderings of child abuse are not a crime in the United States but are considered illegal pornography in some European countries, including Germany.

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24 May 2007

G8-Minister wollen Kampf gegen Kinderpornographie verschärfen

(Heise)
Während ihrer ersten Plenarsitzung haben die Justiz- und Innenminister der G8-Staaten heute in München größere Anstrengungen beim Kampf gegen Kinderpornographie und sexuellen Missbrauch an Kindern verabredet. Kinder bräuchten einen besonderen Schutz gegen den Missbrauch "in Form der Herstellung und Verbreitung von kinderpornographischem Material in großer Zahl in Sekundenschnelle".

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23 May 2007

EU - Defining the Commission's global policy on the fight against cyber crime Defining the Commission's global policy on the fight against cyber crime

(RAPID)
The European Commission has adopted the Communication "Towards a general policy on the fight against cyber crime". Specific actions to improve coordination and cooperation between law enforcement authorities and between law enforcement and private sector operators will play an important role in the fight against cyber crime, and complement other actions taken at national, European and international level. See also background

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22 May 2007

US - MySpace to provide sex offender data to state AGs

(CNET News.com)
MySpace.com unveiled a plan for cooperating with requests from state attorneys general for data pertaining to registered sex offenders. MySpace will provide the Multi-State Attorney General Executive Committee with data from Sentinel Safe, the database of information on registered sex offenders that the company has compiled through its partnership with identity verification firm Sentinel Tech Holding.

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UK - 'What is a Web site?' judge says he's fully computer literate

(Reuters)
A British judge who said he didn't really understand the term "Web site" is fully computer literate and was merely trying to clarify complex evidence for the benefit of the court, the judiciary said. The remark by Judge Peter Openshaw during a trial on Wednesday made headlines around the world. "The trouble is I don't understand the language. I don't really understand what a Web site is," he told a London court during the trial of three men accused of inciting terrorism via the Internet. In a statement, the Judicial Communications Office did not dispute that Openshaw had been accurately quoted. But it said the remark by the judge, now in his fifth week presiding over the trial, had been taken out of context.

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13 May 2007

UK - Government proposes expanded child porn definitions

(OUT-LAW News)
The Government will create a new child pornography offence for computer-generated or drawn images of child abuse. The creation or possession of such images is currently not an offence at all. The possession of actual photographs or images that appear to be photographs of sexual child abuse is punishable by up to 10 years in jail. The Government wants to create a new offence for generated images which would be punishable by three years in jail and an unlimited fine. The new law will relate to cartoon, computer-generated pictures, animations, drawings or actual photos altered so that they do not appear enough like photos to fall under existing law's reference to pseudo photographs.

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UK - Operation Ore flawed by fraud

(Guardian)
Operation Ore has become embedded in public consciousness as the landmark police operation that tracked down people - almost always men - who allegedly paid to access child pornography via computer - but hundreds, perhaps thousands, of the cases show that the police were misled and confused by criminals whose computer expertise was years ahead of theirs. See also BBC picks up on the failings of Operation Ore.

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11 May 2007

'Second Life' publisher removes child porn after German TV probe

(News.com blog)
by Daniel Terdiman. Second Life publisher Linden Lab was contacted by a German TV station that said it had discovered images in the virtual world showing a child avatar engaged in "depicted sexual conduct" with an adult avatar. Linden lab quickly began an investigation and banned the two people behind the avatars, as well as removed the images. Linden Lab said it has a zero tolerance policy regarding such behavior and acts quickly to remove residents who engage in it or the content itself when it is informed of its existence.

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27 April 2007

EU - IP crimes Directive approved by European Parliament

(OUT-LAW News)
A controversial Directive which criminalises intellectual property violations in Europe has been approved by the European Parliament but does not include its most controversial element, the criminalising of patent infringement. Supporters of the Directive say it is aimed at organised crime, but opponents claim that it could criminalise legitimate activities. The proposed directive is also controversial because if passed it would become the first directive to impose criminal penalties across Europe.

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18 April 2007

UK -Two cautioned over wi-fi 'theft'

(BBC)
Two people have been cautioned for using people's wi-fi broadband internet connections without permission. Neighbours in Redditch, Worcestershire, contacted police after seeing a man inside a car using a laptop while parked outside a house.

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17 April 2007

UK - Online child abuse complaints up

(BBC)
Reports of websites that contain images of child abuse have continued to climb in the last year, a report has shown. In 2006, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) investigated more than 31,000 reports of sites that contained alleged images, an increase of 34% since 2005. The IWF annual report also revealed the increasing severity of content held on the sites. More than 3,000 web pages contained images depicting the most severe abuse, such as penetrative and sadistic sexual activity, the report said. Most children involved were under the age of 12.

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02 April 2007

UK - Plan to tighten child abuse law

(BBC)
Ministers are planning to tighten the law to make it an offence to possess computer-generated or cartoon images depicting child sex abuse. It is currently an offence to possess indecent photographs and pseudo-photographs of children. But there has been a growth in computer-generated images, cartoons, and drawings, which are not illegal.

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31 March 2007

US - TJX consumer data theft largest in history

(Ars Technica)
A data breach originally disclosed by the parent company of retailer T.J. Maxx could be the largest case of consumer information theft to occur to date. TJX Cos. disclosed in a regulatory filing this week that the company believes that data on at least 45.7 million credit and debit cards was stolen by hackers, and has reason to believe that the actual number could be much higher.

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25 March 2007

US - Sexual exploitation of children over the Internet

(US House of Representatives)
A staff report prepared for the use of the Committee on Energy and Commerce. Makes a number of suggestions for combating child pornography in the USA.

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17 March 2007

The effects of a "happy slapping" epidemic

(IBLS)
European governments crack down on the recording and distribution of violence online. Several years ago, the United Kingdom noticed a disturbing pastime among a segment of its youths - 'happy slapping'. Individuals or groups found amusing the slapping or striking of strangers while accomplices filmed the assaults using mobile phones. The images were later showcased on the Internet. In recent years, the 'happy slapping' virus has spread into France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland, among other European countries. And governments have had enough of this cruel and sometimes lethal form of entertainment.

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09 August 2006

US - Senate ratifies Cybercrime treaty

(out-law.com)
The US Senate has ratified the Convention on Cybercrime, the first international treaty on computer-related crime and the gathering of electronic evidence. The Convention was signed in November 2001 and came into force in July 2004. The UK has signed the Convention but has yet to formally ratify it [Ed: as is the case for most EU Member States. see status].

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18 June 2006

SSRN - The Role of ISPs in the Investigation of Cybercrime by Ian Kerr, Daphne Gilbert

(SSRN)
by Kerr, Ian R. and Gilbert, Daphne. Examines the new role internet service providers (ISPs) will play in the fight against cybercrime. Examining the legislative model that is being considered in various jurisdictions around the world, the authors argue that adopting this approach will lower the threshold of privacy protection. Moreover, it will drastically alter the relationship between ISPs and the individuals who have come to depend on them to properly manage their personal information and private communications.

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30 March 2006

CoE - Cybercrime Convention Committee meets

The Convention on cybercrime is the only binding international instrument dealing with cybercrime. It has received widespread international support and is open to all States. The Convention provides for consultations of the Parties (the Cybercime Convention Committee (T-CY)). The first meeting of the consultation of the parties took place in Strasbourg, France from 21-22 March 2006. see also Examples of how the private sector has blocked child pornographic sites.

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25 March 2006

Interpol: Give us tools to fight cybercrime | CNET News.com

(CNET News.com)
Interpol has called on politicians to help law enforcement officers bring cybercriminals to justice by making it easier for evidence to be transferred between countries. The international police organization said that a new global legislative framework was needed to deal with cybercrime, which has evolved dramatically since the current legislation was passed.

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19 February 2006

US - Combatting crimes against children a top priority for Department of Justice

(Missing Kids)
Fighting cybercrime will be a top priority for the U.S. Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales announced the Project Safe Childhood Initiative to combat crimes against children facilitated by computers. The new initiative calls for strengthening resources available to law enforcement and a national prevention education campaign.

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30 January 2006

Build a better spam trap and ... spam multiplies - Technology - International Herald Tribune

(International Herald Tribune)
Any e-mail users would argue that spam is still going strong, and some spam fighters even warn that the number of unsolicited e-mails is on the increase. The unwanted commercial messages circulating on the Internet far outnumber legitimate e-mails. Outblaze, a company that manages more than 40 million e-mail accounts around the world, calculated a ratio of more than 14 spam messages to each genuine message. What is more, a fundamental shift is under way in the world of cybercrime toward using spam to make specific organizations targets for extortion, a report from IBM warned.

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28 January 2006

UK - Denial of Service to be criminalised

(out-law.com)
Launching a Denial of Service attack in the UK is set to become a new offence. The Government included updates to the country's main cybercrime law, with new offences and stiffer penalties in its Police and Justice Bill. The Computer Misuse Act is now 15 years old and legal experts have long questioned whether it adequately outlaws Denial of Service attacks. This is an attack in which a web or email server is deliberately flooded with information to the point of collapse. A court cleared a teenager last November on charges of sending five million emails to his former employer, because the judge decided that no offence had been committed under the Act.

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03 August 2005

ITU - WSIS Thematic Meeting on Cybersecurity

(ITU) The ITU WSIS Thematic Meeting on Cybersecurity took place from 28 June - 1 July 2005 in Geneva, Switzerland. A large number of written contributions, presentations and a webcast archive are available online, with the following background papers: A Comparative Analysis of Spam Laws: the Quest for Model Law, A Comparative Analysis of Cybersecurity Initatives Worldwide, Harmonizing National Legal Approaches on Cybercrime and ITU Survey on Anti-Spam Legislation Worldwide

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25 June 2005

CoE - Cybercrime-Konvention vorerst noch Papiertiger

(Heise)
von Monika Ermert. Bei der Verabschiedung der Cybercrime Konvention des Europarates 2001 schlugen die Wogen der Kritik hoch. Inzwischen ist es still geworden um den kontrovers diskutierten Völkerrechtsvertrag. Bislang haben erst 10 der 42 Unterzeichnerstaaten die Konvention auch tatsächlich ratifiziert. Große Länder wie die USA, Frankreich oder Deutschland lassen sich Zeit.

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16 April 2005

FR - Deux ministres à l'assaut de la cybercriminalité

(01net.fr)
Thierry Breton a remis au ministre de l'Intérieur, Dominique de Villepin, une série de propositions destinées à améliorer la lutte contre la cybercriminalité. Chargé de travailler sur le sujet en tant que PDG de France Télécom, en juin 2004, Thierry Breton a présenté son rapport en tant que ministre de l'Economie, des Finances et de l'Industrie. Première proposition, disposer de meilleures statistiques. Le doublement des effectifs de policiers et gendarmes spécialisés dans le cybercrime est confirmé. Le contrôle des contenus illicites devrait bénéficier de la création d'un organisme de centralisation des données. Pour ce qui est de la prévention, entreprises et mineurs sont encouragés, par les deux ministres, à faire état des actes dont ils auraient été victimes. Enfin, le ministre avance l'idée d'un « certificat citoyen » à délivrer aux FAI. Deux ajouts au code pénal sont proposés. L'un pour permettre aux enquêteurs de s'infiltrer sur un support de communication électronique afin de participer à des discussions, de stocker des contenus illicites et d'entrer en contact avec des auteurs d'infractions. L'autre pour punir explicitement les sollicitations sexuelles faites à un mineur par le biais d'un moyen de communication électronique, Internet ou SMS. voir Communiqué de presse et Rapport de M. Thierry Breton (Ministère de l'Intérieur).

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05 March 2005

UK - Police struggling to fight cybercrime

(ZDNet UK)
A Home Office report has found that police are struggling to cope with the weight of Internet child porn cases, due to under-resourcing and insufficient training; The report, Keeping Safe, Staying Safe: Thematic Inspection of the Investigation and Prevention of Child Abuse by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, found that police are spending so much time investigating Internet paedophilia they are failing to pursue other child abuse enquires.

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27 January 2005

UK - US Federal agent raps ISPs over cybercrime

(CNET News.com)
An FBI special agent has hit out at U.K.-based units of large global ISPs and the role they play in allowing the perpetuation of cybercrime through a lack of cooperation with law enforcement. Speaking at the Computer and Internet Crime Conference in London, FBI agent Ed Gibson, who is an assistant legal attache to the U.S. Embassy, expressed concerns that national boundaries are still too much of an obstacle to law enforcement. Gibson said such obstacles can delay law enforcement efforts by months at a time, and he criticized the Internet service providers and their regulations for doing too little to ease the process.

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23 January 2005

IJCLP Special Issue on Cybercrime

(IJCLP)
The International Journal of Communications Law and Policy and the Yale Journal of Law and Technology present Issue 9 on Cybercrime which will be published in two parts. The selected papers discuss whether and how a shift to a digital environment changes the crime scene; facilitates the commission of new types of crimes; leads to radical changes in law enforcement methods; equips law enforcement with new tools of surveillance, technological design and risk sorting systems; presents challenges for the legal process; and introduces new forms of social resistance through 'hacktivism' and counter-surveillance. In particular, the authors have questioned both the efficacy of fighting cybercrime and the civil liberties implications arising from innovations in law enforcement methods of operation.

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05 December 2004

UK - New papers on e-crime

(CommsWatch)
The organisations EURIM and IPPR have today published two new studies as part of their E-Crime Study programme. The paper on Reducing Opportunities for E-Crime focuses on the need for industry and law enforcement to work together to produce practical, plain English guidance for users on what to do to protect themselves and what to do when they suspect they have been victimised. The paper on The Reporting of Cybercrime (non-geographic e-crime where the agency responsible for action is not obvious) addresses the need to rationalise the current jungle of largely ad hoc reporting structures,

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17 September 2004

2004-09-15 CoE, Strasbourg - High-Level Conference on the Challenge of Cybercrime

(CoE)
World-wide action against cybercrime is the aim of a Council of Europe conference, to be held in Strasbourg from 15 to 17 September.

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CoE - Sign the Cybercrime Convention, urge secureocrats

(The Register) Politicians, police and representatives from business are gathering in Strasburg to push forward international efforts to combat cybercime. A key aim of the three-day conference is to encourage more countries to sign up to the Council of Europe's Cybercrime Convention, the first international treaty to address electronic crimes. Eight countries have ratified and 30 have signed the convention (list here), which came into force in July 2004. The Council of Europe wants more states (including countries outside Europe) to back the treaty."

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27 August 2004

U.S. cracks down on cybercrime

(New York Times)
The Justice Department has announced that more than 150 people have been arrested, charged or convicted in the past three months in a crackdown on criminal activity on the Internet. The cases, involving credit card fraud, corporate espionage and other offenses, are part of what the department called Operation Web Snare. The sweep was conducted by 37 offices of the FBI, 13 divisions of the Postal Inspection Service and other federal and local agencies. Investigators have identified more than 150,000 victims of Internet crime with losses totaling more than $215 million. Some cases involved the sending of junk e-mail, known as spam, and a form of online identity theft known as phishing. But many of them involved use of the Internet by companies seeking an advantage over competitors.

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19 May 2004

UK - Skills not money needed to fight cybercrime

(ZDNet UK)
Law enforcement agencies require a bigger pool of skilled investigators and digital forensic experts, not more money or legislation, according to a study. A large number of criminals connect to the Internet, which has led to the transfer of traditional crimes to the online world. Although cybercrimes are becoming more common, members of the police force and specialist computer crime units lack many of the basic skills required to trace and analyse computer-based crimes. Although there are 140,000 police officers in the UK, only around 1,000 of them have received any specialist cybercrime training and only 250 are in specialist computer-crime units.

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15 May 2004

US - Dozens arrested over Internet child porn distribution

(CNN)
Dozens of people have been arrested in connection with an ongoing federal crackdown on the distribution of child pornography sent over the Internet using peer-to-peer file sharing applications. Attorney General John Ashcroft and officials from the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the results of the latest enforcement actions which have taken place throughout the United States in recent days. Cybercrime task forces have been targeting distributors of pornographic images on the file sharing networks which have been used by young, potentially vulnerable audiences, who primarily have used the peer to peer applications to share music. In some cases predators have used the technology to try to lure victims for sex. The attorney general will highlight the ongoing problem in part to help alert parents of the continuing danger of pornography targeted at minors on the Internet.

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05 May 2004

New issue of EDRI-gram

(EDRI-gram)
Bi-weekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe. Number 2.9, 5 May 2004. Conntents: 1. New EU proposal to store telecom data 450 million citizens 2. EU parliament ditches PNR transfer for the third time 3. Ireland cancels e-voting 4. Privacy International report on ID-cards and terrorism 5. Romania implements Cybercrime Convention 6. Business interest first served at .EU domain 7. Update on EU Copyright Directive 8. Council accepts Spanish PNR-proposal 9. Final French vote about digital economy law 10. Survey about WIPO broadcasting treaty 11. Collecting societies warned about breaking competition rules 12. Recommended reading: regulating spam.

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25 April 2004

Doctor acquitted of porn charges

(BBC)
A hospital consultant has been cleared of child porn charges, in what police say is the first failed prosecution under Operation Ore. Dr Paul Grout, 46, was cleared of four charges when a judge ordered the jury to find him not guilty. He was arrested at Hull Royal Infirmary in October 2002 after his credit card details came up during the inquiry into child pornography on the internet. He denied two charges of attempting to incite the distribution of indecent photographs of children and two charges of incitement to distribute indecent photographs of children. The Judge at Hull Crown Court ordered the jury to find the defendant not guilty. He said that, based on the evidence, it was not possible to exclude the possibility that someone else had used Dr Grout's credit card details by hacking into his computer. The court had already heard that no images of child pornography were ever found on any computers used by Dr Grout, or at his home.

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20 March 2004

CoE - Entry into force of the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime

(Press Release)
The Council of Europe?s Convention on Cybercrime will enter into force following its ratification today by Lithuania as the 5th country. The convention, which is the first international treaty on crimes committed via the internet and other computer networks, is the result of four years? work by experts from the 45-member Council of Europe and from non-member countries including the USA, Canada and Japan. The main aim of the convention ? which focusses in particular on child pornography, computer-related fraud and violations of network security ? is to develop a common criminal policy on cybercrime by promoting international co-operation and the adoption of appropriate legislation.

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15 February 2004

EU - Handbook of Legislative Procedures of Computer and Network Misuse

(EDRI-gram)
Study for the European Commission, Directorate-General Information Society, by Rand Europe. The Handbook is designed to help European Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRT) deal with incidents and operate in a European environment with divergent legal codes dealing with computer crime and misuse. Particular attention is devoted to the examination of the content of the Council of Europe's Cybercrime Convention and the proposed European Framework Decision on Attacks Against Information Systems. The publication contains an analysis of legislation in each EU member state in the area of computer crime. A summary table is also provided together with the law enforcement points of contacts and reporting mechanisms.

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18 January 2004

FR - French green-light radical overhaul of internet and telecoms

(Silicon.com)
The French internet landscape is taking on the look of a battlefield, after the country's MPs approved a second reading earlier this month of the 'Confidence in the digital economy' bill. The bill aims to clarify legislation in several areas: e-commerce; service providers' legal responsibilities; the various remits of regulators; cybercrime; and telecoms. see also French ISPs angry over ?Digital Economy? bill (out-law.com).

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06 December 2003

CoE - Cyber-Crime Convention, An Advocacy Handbook for the Non Governmental Organisations

(Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK))
This advocacy handbook for the NGOs provides a policy analysis of the Cyber-Crime Convention 2001 and its first additional protocol from a human rights perspective for policy specialists, NGOs, and human rights activists within the 45 member states of the Council of Europe. Compatibility problems with the European Convention on Human Rights and implications for freedom of expression, privacy of communications and data protection will be the main focus of this critical analysis. The appendices include other useful information that could be relied upon while NGOs and policy activists lobby their individual governments in relation to the implementation of the Convention.

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ICANN _ At the Moment, No One Governs the Internet

(CircleID)
by Susan Crawford. ICANN was designed to keep other governments at bay. ICANN has, however, no particular delegated power beyond that accorded to it by the contracts it has signed with registries and registrars. At the moment, no one governs the Internet. ICANN isn't about Internet governance (whatever that means). ICANN worries about registries and number allocation. That's it. If the world wants to make rules about content and identity and intellectual property and cybercrime, the world will have to find another vessel. ICANN cannot bear that burden. see also What is WSIS Getting At?.

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27 November 2003

2004-03-26 US, Yale - Digital Cops in Virtual Environment

(Yale Information Society Project)
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School is pleased to announce its upcoming conference on Cybercrime and Digital Law Enforcement entitled: "Digital Cops in Virtual Environment," which will take place on March 26-28, 2004 at Yale Law School. The conference will question both the efficacy of fighting cybercrime and the civil liberties implications arising from innovations in law enforcement methods of operation. see also Writing Competition and Call for Papers. Deadlines for the writing competition: February 15th, 2004, for publication: May 1st, 2004.

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20 November 2003

US - Bush pushes for cybercrime treaty

(CNET News.com)
by Declan McCullagh. President Bush has asked the U.S. Senate to ratify the first international cybercrime treaty. In a letter to the Senate, Bush called the Council of Europe's controversial treaty 'an effective tool in the global effort to combat computer-related crime' and 'the only multilateral treaty to address the problems of computer-related crime and electronic evidence gathering.' Even though the United States is a nonvoting member of the Council of Europe, it has pressed hard for the cybercrime treaty as a way to establish international criminal standards related to copyright infringement, online fraud, child pornography and network intrusions. The U.S. Department of Justice says the treaty will eliminate 'procedural and jurisdictional obstacles that can delay or endanger international investigations.'

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EU - Ministers to approve agency to combat cybercrime

(Euractiv.com)
The setting up of a Network and Information Security Agency, the switchover to digital TV and pan-European egovernment services are the main issues being discussed by telecoms ministers on 20 November. The telecommunications minister will have to tackle several important issues during their Council meeting on Thursday 20 November 2003: a political agreement is likely to be reached on a regulation establishing the European Network and Information Security Agency. This agency should enhance the capability to prevent security problems arising from the use of information networks (hacking, virus attacks) ; conclusions will be adopted on the transition from analogue to digital TV and radio broadcasting and the Member States' policies for this switchover process; conclusions will be approved on access to information society services through open platforms (digital TV and 3rd generation mobile) ; an exchange of views will be held on the situation of electronic communications in Europe (broadband and 3rd generation as the drivers of an upturn in this sector); conclusions will be adopted on the role of eGovernment for Europe's future. other points: the World Summit on the Information Society (Communication from the Commission) and a report on the state of legislation and policy as regards digital content in Europe. see also Preparation of the Telecom Council (RAPID), Provisional Press Release

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08 November 2003

BR - Cybercrime?s superlab: Brazil

(New York Times)
In Brazil, organized crime is rife and laws to prevent digital crime are few and largely ineffective. The country is becoming a laboratory for cybercrime, with hackers - able to collaborate with relative impunity - specializing in identity and data theft, credit card fraud and piracy, as well as online vandalism.

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25 October 2003

EU - Electronic evidence project results

(Europa)
Fighting cybercrime is not easy. The EU Cyber Tools On-Line Search for Evidence (CTOSE) project, supported by the Commission's Information Society Technologies (IST) programme, has developed a methodology that identifies, secures, integrates and presents electronic evidence. It enables anyone from system administrators, information technology security staff and computer incident investigators, to police and law-enforcement agencies to follow consistent and standardised procedures when investigating computer incidents using 'computer forensic tools'. The methodology ensures all electronic evidence is legally and properly gathered and preserved, acting as uncontaminated and compelling proof that a crime or fraud has been committed to company management, industrial tribunals, or civil or criminal courts.

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27 August 2003

UK - Child porn cases may face collapse

(Leeds Today)
As part of Operation Ore, dozens of people have been either jailed or fined and put on the sex offenders' register after they admitted paying for and downloading child porn from the Internet. But now calls have made for the cases to be reviewed following the collapse of the case against Soham detective Brian Stevens, who was accused of possessing and distributing child porn. The case collapsed because of flawed evidence from one of the star witnesses, Brian Underhill. The traffic police officer turned computer crime expert has been involved in more than 600 of the 1,600 prosecutions brought by UK police as part of Operation Ore. In total his firm, Celt Limited, has dealt with 1,022 cases.

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26 August 2003

AU - EFA submission re IIA Cybercrime Code

(EFA)
This is a submission in response to the draft Cybercrime Code of Practice issued for public consultation by the Internet Industry Association of Australia ('IIA') on 21 July 2003. The Code fails to acknowledge the fundamental human right to privacy as a principle underlying the Code, and disregard for individuals' privacy is evident throughout the Code. The provisions of the Code are not, as claimed, "within the spirit and letter of relevant privacy legislation" nor the IIA draft Privacy Code. The Code seeks to establish a de facto extension of the interception of telecommunications regime currently governed by the Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979.

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18 August 2003

CH - Swiss revel in reporting Internet crime

(NZZ)
A special Internet police unit is being swamped by tip-offs from the public denouncing suspected criminal websites. Since the beginning of the year, 3,600 complaints have been lodged with the Swiss Coordination Unit for Cybercrime Control (Cycos). Half of the complaints concerned websites carrying pornographic content, and half of these depicted hardcore acts. Other objections addressed spam emails, racist and extremist sites and infringement of copyright.

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10 August 2003

KR - Cybercriminals target online gamers

(ZDNet UK)
South Korea leads the world in its population's enthusiastic approach to the Internet and the latest technology, but cybercrime is a growing problem

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AU - Mobiles 'option for child-sex crimes

(Advertiser)
Children carrying new-generation mobile phones would be open to the advances of pedophiles. Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA) chairman David Flint told a parliamentary hearing in Sydney on cybercrime that the latest mobiles, known as 3G (third generation), were essentially small computers. Asked by the committee if there was a need to quickly develop codes of practice for mobile service providers because of anecdotal evidence about the new phones being used by pedophiles, Professor Flint said: 'I think you're right.'"

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