Anti-Terrorist Fight at Expense of Anti-Drug Operations

Marc Goodman 

One of the best operational specialists in the fight against cybercrime in the U.S., Marc Goodman , has been lured [...]

Council of Europe Excels in "Soft" Law 

Negotiations at the Council of Europe on a cybercrime convention made it plain governments were lobbying to create standards that conformed more to their interests than to their own national legislation. [...]

U.S. Steps Up Computer Crime Drive 

In a speech on cybercrime on July 20, attorney-general John [...]

World-Wide Surveillance Network 

A G-8 sub-group on high-tech crime (the Lyons group) that met behind closed doors at Hiroshima in Japan between Nov. [...]

Interpol in Public-Private Pact 

The Silicon Valley company Atomic Tangerine, affiliate of the Stanford Research Institute, has signed an accord with Interpol that will [...]

Stepping Up the Fight Against Cybercrime 

On May 8 the FBI, U.S. Justice Department and the [...]

Clamps on Encryption Lifted 

In the wake of the G8 conclave in Paris on high tech crime in mid-May, the European Commission is poised [...]

G8 Inches Ahead 

While experts attending a recent G8 meeting in Tokyo declared [...]

THE PITFALLS OF MASS-PRODUCED ENCRYPTION 

During the G8 summit meeting in Moscow this week as ministers laid plans for future cooperation in fighting cybercrime several law enforcement and intelligence officials on the sidelines were instead weighing the consequences of mass-produced encryption. [...]

ORGANIZED CRIME AND CYBERCRIME 

Oceana Publications and the University of Florida's Center for International [...]

FBI AGAINST THE ORIENTALS? 

The FBI is showing keen interest in security problems related to China and Japan. It has placed advertisements in American [...]

COMPUTER UNDERGROUND DIGEST 

On 13 March Computer Underground Digest (CuD) came out with its number 11 issue (volume 4). It can be found [...]

TWO AMERICAN HOSTAGES STILL HELD 

According to official sources, rebels of the New Peoples Army (NPA) still hold two Americans: a retired sixty-three year old [...]

Hawaii and the continental U.S. are experiencing a surge in [...]

FBI TO FIGHT STREET GANGS 

Special agents of the FBI, freed from anti-Communist duties, will be reassigned to investigate violent street gangs in major American [...]