Re: Computer sleuths ply Internet

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Forwarded from: Mark Bernard <mbernard () nbnet nb ca>

Good morning Associates,

Thanks for the story...

It's nice to read about how the HTCIA is playing a role in managing
cyber-crime. I am a member and founder of the local New Brunswick
Chapter.

We now have 38 chapters spanning around the globe across Asia/Pacific
Rim, Africa, Europe, South America and North America.
;http://www.htcia.org

We are doing what no other agency or association has been able to
accomplish before by brining private and public businesses together
with law enforcement. Traditionally businesses have always been leery
of working with law enforcement but we are breaking down the barriers.
Businesses are finding out that's its better for business to build
strong relationships with each other and law enforcement, so that we
might mitigate incidents before they hit the local headlines and cause
financial damage to a businesses reputation. However we still need to
break a few eggs to make an omelette. The perversion of technology and
greed of humans will always be a factor and we need to work hard
together to close that gap.

Best regards for 2004,
Mark E. S. Bernard, CISM,


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> http://greenvilleonline.com/news/2003/12/22/2003122221417.htm
>
> By Ron Barnett
> STAFF WRITER
> rbarnett () greenvillenews com
> December 22, 2003
>
> COLUMBIA - A 13-year-old girl sat at a computer in Orangeburg,
> making arrangements to have sex with an older man from Charleston.  
> At least that's what the man thought.
>
> When he arrived at the appointed place in Orangeburg, it was not a
> young girl who met him.
>
> It was the law.
>
> The "girl" was actually an agent at the South Carolina Computer
> Crime Center. The center, which brings together state and federal
> cyber crime experts, is one-year-old this month.
>
> And business is booming.
>
> "It is just growing exponentially, said Neal Dolan, the state's top
> Secret Service officer. "We bring guys in from around the country
> for a week at a time to catch us up."
>
> The center had worked 263 cases through November, said Lt. Chip
> Johnson, supervisory special agent for the State Law Enforcement
> Division, who oversees day-to-day operations. In the process,
> investigators sorted through 5.8 terabytes of information, he said,
> or the equivalent of 5,800 sets of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
>
> But for all the vast amount of data searched, the number of cases
> cracked can be counted without a calculator.
>
> The Computer Crime Center, which was established using more than
> $5.6 million in federal grants and infused with another $2.2 million
> this fall, has made 20 arrests, according to SLED spokeswoman
> Kathryn Richardson. That doesn't include arrests other law
> enforcement agencies made with assistance from the center, she said.
>
> But locking up criminals isn't the only thrust of the center, which
> FBI Director Robert Muller called the first computer crime unit that
> combines efforts of state and federal agencies.
>
> The center, which operates discretely out of the third floor of a
> mirrored-glass and brick building at a corporate office park off
> Interstate 26, also trains law enforcement officers across the state
> and is opening communication between high tech industry and law
> enforcement that hasn't existed in the past, authorities said.
>
> The center also has erased some of the barriers that have made
> computer crime investigations difficult, by combining state and
> federal efforts, experts said.
>
> "In the past people have actually had their own territories and
> areas where other people could not encroach on," said Majid Hassan,
> president of the High Technology Crime Investigation Association, a
> California-based public service organization of law enforcement and
> private security firms.
>
> The South Carolina Computer Crime Center, he said, is "a vast
> improvement over what we had previously."



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